good!

Album Rating: 4.5

A near classic masterpiece.

every time i write some kind of composition for piano ill be like 'damn this is awesome and cinematic'


*listens to this album*


fuck i stole it

Album is amazing. Enough said.

Album Rating: 4.0

well in all honesty robert, it's not like Max Richter was ALL that original, he usually just uses arpeggios on chord progressions, doesn't mean this isn't great, but I mean he pretty much just uses simple stuff that can really easily be ripped off anyways.

Yep. In my opinion, it's the simple nature of this that makes it so beautiful - he creates something majestic without using much at all.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm not sure what he could do different that would make this more complex(/original?)... add a drum

set playing in a separate meter from the rest of the pieces and then a bunch of flugelhorn solos

playing only notes that aren't diatonic? Modulate every half bar? Instead of piano arpeggios

confine himself to being original and using unison bassoon and panflute chord tones an octave apart?

Add in some quartertone melodies with lyrics sung in Ket?

I mean I wouldn't call "The Trees" very complex, but I wouldn't call it very simple either. I

wouldn't call it strikingly original, but I wouldn't critique it as unoriginal. You can just

tell he's writing with his ear and not his musically sophisticated dick.

"On The Nature of Daylight" is my favorite.

Album Rating: 4.5

shutter island's use of on the nature of daylight made me boner

Album Rating: 4.5

^Me too!

A stretch for some but I have to 5 this.

Album Rating: 4.0

shutter island's use of on the nature of daylight made me boner

gotta love tilda swinton


love the monologues, they make the music really cinematic. i loved the use of OTNOD in shutter island, but i do feel as if this is already cinematic enough and actually using it in a film is kind of redundant. it's a kind of a 'film soundtrack' album, but to actually use it in a film's soundtrack is kind of -missing the point-, though i dont expect whoever put that track into the film to look into it that far, lol.

Album Rating: 4.0

if anyone has seen the movie "waltz with bashir", max richter was behind all of the music. and some tracks from this album are in it. i shat my pants. not to mention the movie was brilliant.

i saw that movie twice; didn't know that. i think i saw it before i knew about this album though, so if i watched it again i'd probably catch it. thanks for the info!

Album Rating: 4.0

i've not seen it, i'll look out for it though, sounds good!

the blue 4.5 books

Album Rating: 4.5

just 5d this. worth ittt

definitely wont hit a five for me...it's the kind of album i'd want to make a five but it's too
flawed--especially the parts that drag on (hi there shadow journal). good stuff though

i probably said this earlier but really i wish this had more classical elements and less electronic

Album Rating: 3.5

wow this is great stuff.