The Brutalist Soundtrack is Now Available to Pre-order on Vinyl & CD
We’re thrilled to announce the official pre-order for the CD and vinyl editions of The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring music by Daniel Blumberg composed for filmmaker Brady Corbet’s 10x Academy Award®-nominated film. The 32-track release spans two discs, arriving on double CD format and 2-LP set pressed on heavyweight, 180-gram vinyl housed in printed sleeves and a gatefold package featuring imagery designed by The Brutalist title designer Sebastian Pardo in close collaboration with Blumberg himself.
Nominated for Best Original Score at the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, Blumberg’s music accompanies Corbet’s epic story of a Hungarian architect on his post-war pursuit of the American dream, its ambitious scope matching the director’s monumental cinematic vision. The Brutalist is available in theaters, including 70mm and IMAX presentations, now from A24 and Universal Pictures International.
The pre-order arrives alongside a special behind the scenes score featurette released by A24, which takes an intimate look at how composer Daniel Blumberg created The Brutalist’s entrancing score.
Encompassing large-scale brass orchestrations, intimately lyrical piano melodies and freewheeling, improvisational jazz, The Brutalist’s score is as ambitious and broad in scope as the film itself. Envisioning the score as slabs of sound – rich and resonating while also measured and restrained – the music developed into the sonic embodiment of the Brutalist design aesthetic, where imposing scale and raw textures meet values of simplicity and economy.
To craft its singular sound, Blumberg worked with a cast of boundary-pushing musicians and improvisers, traveling across the UK and Europe with a custom-built remote recording setup to capture his players on location. Exploiting the tension between the fluidity of improvised music and the meticulous precision of film scoring, Blumberg coaxed out beautifully rich and resonant performances from his collaborators, including avant-garde innovators Axel Dörner (trumpet), Evan Parker (saxophone), Sophie Agnel (piano), and John Tilbury (piano), to name a few.
For the film’s frenetic and intoxicating jazz club scene, Blumberg assembled a jazz quartet (comprised of Pierre Borel on saxophone, Simon Sieger on piano, Joel Grip on bass, and Antonin Gerbal on drums) to perform improvised versions of his themes live on set, resulting in one of the film’s most electrifying numbers, as well as additional period-specific pieces that appear throughout the soundtrack. For the film’s 1980s-set Epilogue, Blumberg traveled to New York to work with synth-pop pioneer Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Erasure), deconstructing and rebuilding the film’s main theme into a redemptive, synth and drum machine-driven dance track befitting of the new era.
The score was mixed and co-produced by longtime Scott Walker collaborator Peter Walsh, who also worked on Blumberg’s past three records
Pre-order the vinyl & CD here:
VINYL TRACKLISTING
SIDE A
- Overture (Ship)
- Overture (László)
- Overture (Bus)
- Chair
- Van Buren’s Estate
- Library
- Jazz Club
- Porn
SIDE B
- Monologue
- Up the Hill
- Pennsylvania
- Bicycle
- Steel
- Intermission
SIDE C
- Erzsébet
- Handjob
- Bath
- Building Site
- Ribbon Cutting
- Picnic by the Lake
- Gordon’s Dinner
- Looking at You
- Vidui
SIDE D
- New York
- Stairs
- Carrara
- Marble
- Tunnel
- Construction
- Heroin
- Search Party
- Epilogue (Venice)