What Do You Know?

I’ve seen Alex Garland’s Annihilation a few times now. If you haven’t watched it, it’s a beautiful, unsettling science fiction trip. Starring Natalie Portman and directed by Garland (Ex Machina), the film follows a biologist into “The Shimmer”—a mysterious zone where nature has essentially lost its mind. It’s a place where DNA refracts like light in a prism, creating these gorgeous mutations that are as dangerous as they are fascinating.

As a guitarist, the musical motif will definitely stand out to you. The ambient soundscape, by composers Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, is punctuated and contrasted…