“One Battle After Another” is an action-comedy-thriller film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely adapted from the 1990 Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood composed the film score, marking his sixth collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson.
I love all things Radiohead, and Jonny Greenwood is one of my all time favorite guitarists and composers. In a musical sense, he is free; completely untethered from convention. The score for One Battle After Another is tense and erratic — often using discordant piano, guitar, and unpredictable percussion to reflect the film’s shifts in tone from comedy to thriller.
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