Alec Cheer

There is little history here as this is a new release - but this is simply an amazing modern score to a film you may never have heard about (one directed by Grant McPhee). What sets this score apart is its clinical post-modern feel - with influences including Mica, John Carpenter, Brian Eno, Goblin, Fabio Frizzi, even with whispers of the 1980s, as well as a musical feel a little like the classic Drive soundtrack. Yet with all these influences composer Alec Cheer somehow manages to create a new work that sounds unlike any other. Its dark, bewitching, mesmerizing, ear-catching and even "banging" in parts. Look, it must be good, otherwise Jonny Trunk would not be pressing it. And with a spelling mistake too.