Hans zimmer is a work of art.
5
By Marc Dumanois
Masterpiece.
Joi the best ambient music I've ever heard
5
By YoRHa 2B Angel
Blade Runner 2049 OST one of the best movie in the history of electronic music -XXI century. Simply perfection. Sound of future. Titanic work was done.
Powerful and Bold and Awakens the Spirit!
5
By eschdawg
This soundtrack is absolutely amazing! I can’t stop listening to it and find those haunting moments with the piano scores and then it picks up strong with almost a tribal beat. My favorite is Mesa but Sea Wall is a close second. There’s even some deep chanting pieces that awaken the spirit. Bold and powerful music!
Not like the original
1
By Archituthis
It’s not as unique or as memorable as the original blade runner soundtrack by vangelis. In fact it’s really not worth buying, I couldn’t even listen to the whole album.
The Stars of the Lid album we've been waiting for
5
By gnperdue
This is an amazing work of art and it is astonishing something like this was produced as part of a major Hollywood film release. Of course, the same could be said about Blade Runner 2049. I absolutely love movies that are actually art house films but end up with huge budgets. (They're the best ones.) A name as big as Zimmer's was probably needed to get the greenlight on this extended piece of genius, because there is no way a normal Hollywood suit signed off on this.
This album is most definitely not for everyone, but if you are one of its people, you will love it.
Best Movie Soundtrack Period
5
By Envoy 47
My favorite movie with one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard in a movie
Greatest of all time
5
By ALAN BECKHAM
The best soundtrack I've ever heard for the best film I've ever seen. A true scifi epic masterpiece with Hanz Zimmer lighting it up.
Great soundtrack
5
By OnLyMeAmI
Listened to this SEVERAL times. Great soundtrack. Don’t compare this OST to Vangelis’s.. they’re two different movies, two different feels. I recommend both of them!
Beautiful retread
3
By Firemonkey
I enjoyed the film and the soundtrack did it's job. The film was brilliant while the soundtrack was somehow a bit dissapointing compared to the impact made by the original Vangellis score.
Worthy Successor... almost
5
By Shocker88
Yes, five stars although I do have a couple of nitpicks. I look at this in the same way I looked at Daft Punk's score for "Tron: Legacy" compared to the Wendy Carlos amazing off-time-change compositions for the original "Tron": younger minds, different ideas. Not fresh, but different. I was mostly glad that the music BR2049 wasn't some EDM-influenced racket. There's a place for that and this ain't it.
I see some complain that it uses too much of the Vangelis-written themes which I really felt wasn't out of place. Much like Jed Kurzel's adaptations of Jerry Goldsmith's "Alien" score for "Alien Covenant", I found them to be a welcome note of familiarity in a visual world that's very much updated from the original. It's not unlike comparing scenes of NYC in the 1930's versus now. Where Vangelis's work was steeped in a classic "film noir" tradition (which probably was made moreso with the Deckard voiceover in the theatrical release of the original), Zimmer & Wallfisch have a more modern sound to fit a modern film.
My two issues: Just me, but a little more organic, analog instrumentation in certain moments wouldn't have been a bad thing. The right instruments at the right time could've given certain dialogue passages a little more heft. Again, that's my armchair filmmaker side coming out to play.
Then, there's that synth that sounds like they sampled a crotch rocket motorcycle in a tunnel and tuned it to suit their needs (reference "Pilot" around the 1:48 mark). Playing it though home speakers seems to take the harshness out a good bit but, in the theater, I guess I was sitting in the sweet spot where I'd get the brunt of whatever frequencies were gonna give my ribs a bit of a shaking.
