The Gloria Bell Soundtrack Album.

Film Sebastián Lelio's Gloria Bell is a pretty good English language remake of the director's own 2013 film Gloria, this time starring Julianne Moore as the lonely divorcee who meets an unreliable jerk played by John Turturro.

It's fine.  As ever, Moore's performance elevates the otherwise pretty bland material.

But what really powers the drama is Matthew Herbert's score, an electronic orchestral wonderland which, if you're watching with headphones as I did, marinades your ears in major key as it charts the protagonists emotional ups and down.

The whole thing is on Spotify:



But honestly the title track is the most alluring, with its four note hook and automatic earwig, evoking the highs of new love.



About the only oddity is that some of the tracks sound like they're about to head off into an electronic free jazz improvisation of the K9 and Company theme:





Or perhaps that's just my fan gene taking a bath.

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