Inherent Vice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Jonny Greenwood - Inherent Vice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
User Score
Based on 22 ratings
Liked by 1 person
December 15, 2014 / Release Date
Soundtrack / Format
Nonesuch / Label
Jonny Greenwood / Composer
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic

In its own way, Inherent Vice is as subtly and carefully crafted as Greenwood's other scores for Anderson's films, but its wit and heart make it special in its own right.

73
Pitchfork

The soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, a film based on Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, gives composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood a chance to indulge his inner Hollywood romantic.

70
Drowned in Sound
His non-Radiohead output has always been interesting and has often been compelling - perhaps if he releases whatever’s next on BitTorrent, it’ll meet with the audience it deserves.
CanIMayI
74

Inherent Vice, taking place in the wilds of urban California, is a sunny noir—a blanc, if you want—and Greenwood pours it on, using spacious oboe and lugubrious strings that match Sportello’s mindset and undercut the convoluted quadruple-crosses and blackouts of Sportello’s investigation. The Densmore-tinged and spacey “Spooks,” featuring Joanna Newsom’s low-slung (and surprisingly low-register) Beat-boxing, nails the feeling of both Pynchon and ... read more

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Track List

  1. Shasta
  2. Vitamin C
  3. Meeting Crocker Fenway
  4. Here Comes the Ho-Dads
  5. Spooks
  6. Shasta Fay
  7. Les Fleur
  8. The Chryskylodon Institute
  9. Sukiyaki
  10. Adrian Prussia
  11. Journey Through the Past
  12. Simba
  13. Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach!
  14. The Golden Fang
  15. Amethyst
  16. Shasta Fay Hepworth
  17. Any Day Now
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Added on: December 10, 2014