Darkest Hour

One of the most underrated soundtracks of 2017 was the piano driven score for Darkest Hour, by composers, Dario Marianelli, and Vikingur Olafsson.

I had been working on the finale, We Shall Fight, for months. I couldn’t find a way to pair it down. The suite is very long — with ever changing chord progressions. It was just too much a of a time commitment for me.

However, the light piano intro of We Shall Fight is a recurring theme throughout the Darkest Hour score — and the track One of Them contains the central piano theme. I…