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cimoreneIn this household we are fans of the work of composer Bear McCreary, a fairly prolific soundtrack composer who first came to our attention as the composer of Outlander (we got the first volume of the soundtrack and for a while tried without success to legally obtain the next one), but awakened way more enthusiasm with his soundtrack work for Black Sails. Specifically, the Black Sails title theme, which is an absolute banger.
He has more recently worked on Rings of Power and Foundation, so he's clearly been busy, but the most exciting new thing is this collaboration with Hozier (also like him, but have never got around to buying any of his albums): it's called Blood Upon the Snow and they wrote it for a video game and I guess won an award and performed it at an awards show? I have taken pains to gather as little information about the game in question as possible, but McCreary did the whole soundtrack, so we just bought the entire album. All the rest of it is more soundtracky - not exactly instrumental, but the use he makes of a chorus (singing I think in Faroese? Or maybe Icelandic?) and soloist are very instrumental-feeling, in comparison.
There's a great behind the scenes video with them both talking about it which has so much long wavy brown hair and enthusiasm, it's great, although it's not entirely free of video game promotion (like... understandably, I mean, but still).
He has more recently worked on Rings of Power and Foundation, so he's clearly been busy, but the most exciting new thing is this collaboration with Hozier (also like him, but have never got around to buying any of his albums): it's called Blood Upon the Snow and they wrote it for a video game and I guess won an award and performed it at an awards show? I have taken pains to gather as little information about the game in question as possible, but McCreary did the whole soundtrack, so we just bought the entire album. All the rest of it is more soundtracky - not exactly instrumental, but the use he makes of a chorus (singing I think in Faroese? Or maybe Icelandic?) and soloist are very instrumental-feeling, in comparison.
There's a great behind the scenes video with them both talking about it which has so much long wavy brown hair and enthusiasm, it's great, although it's not entirely free of video game promotion (like... understandably, I mean, but still).
