The Social Network *****

Null Corporation This score for David Fincher's film about the founding of Facebook is an extraordinary mosaic of musical styles and ideas. Boldly mixing 1980s game muzak, alt.rock, post- minimalism and electro pop, the Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and longtime producer Atticus Ross (who also wrote the superb Book of Eliscore) combine spare repetitive themes and jittery pulses with bright electronica, warm instrumentation (guitar, piano, drums) and angular noise (digital and found) into an original and dynamic score. Reznor and Rose infuse their playful reflexivity (a manic reworking of Edvard Grieg's In The Hall of the Mountain King) and brooding lyricism with a pervasive atmosphere of oneiric menace, making The Social Networkone of the most dramatic and compelling scores of the year. See nin.com

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