A hymn is a poem, set to music at the time of its composing or later (sometimes the music for our most well-known hymns came decades after the lyrics). In contrast to many modern songs and praise & worship chorus lyrics, hymn text writers typically write their lyrics in fixed “metrical...
In looking at the greatest movie music of all time, Pitchfork is publishing two separate lists this week: best soundtracks and best original scores. Today, we discuss soundtracks, which we’re defining as collections of songs that have been used in films. These are usually multi-artist compilat...
But it tips into full dark-fairytale territory when murderous preacher Robert Mitchum tracks a pair of kids cross-country, adding off-kilter lullabies, queasy nursery rhymes and dark hymns to an already unsettling brew. Tom Huddleston Arts and culture journalist Recommended The best movies of 2024...
AC/DC (whose Back in Black is the world’s #2 best-seller), Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen, The Bodyguard soundtrack (#4 worldwide), Metallica, Nirvana, Santana and Guns N’ Roses, each of whom has LPs with worldwide sales reported to be north of 30 million ...
It’s not just the tunes, the blazing triumphs, the thundering highlights or the contemplative hymns and the rhapsodies. We all love Beethoven because even though it was all such a struggle against the world, his emotions and his deafness, he never lost his idealism or his faith. Beethoven,...
The band's fifth studio album, Hymns, the first to involve Harris and Bartle, was released on 29 January 2016. Bloc Party have sold over 3 million albums worldwide. Also ranks #8 on The Best Post-punk Revival Bands Also ranks #20 on The 20 Best 2000s Alternative Rock Band...
Hildegard von Bingen: Hymns and Songs (12th century) Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Italian late-Renaissance, early-Baroquecomposer and instrumentalistMonteverdiwas the king of the madrigal, writing nine books of them, and the father of the operatic form as we really think of it today. ...
Rousing community singalongs and sparse hymns of ritual sacrifice weave conflicting narratives of their own. It’s a soundtrack that casts strange shadows and remains ungraspable, like a tongue of flame. –Sean T. Collins Listen: Paul Giovanni, “Willow’s Song” 45. Black Panther (2018) ...
With little more than her voice, a Boss DD-20 Giga Delay guitar pedal, and a smattering of piano and bells, the Brooklyn-based singer and sound artistJulianna Barwickconjures a rapturous space on her second album. Taking cues from the hymns she sang in the Church of Christ (where her fa...
With its screwed-on eyes, button mouth, and metallic thread of a mohawk, the cover star of Jim O’Rourke’s foreboding 2001 glitch excursion is a human simulacra, a choirboy faceplate chanting hymns for the future. The music inside I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 fol...