StreamingSoundtracks.com - Cuckoo

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Cuckoo - Part 1 Andrew Hewitt	1:40	7
02	Cuckoo - Part 2 Andrew Hewitt	2:07	6
03	Scarlet Letter Andrew Hewitt	1:31	6
04	Alone And I Andrew Hewitt	1:01	5
05	I Waited For You Andrew Hewitt	1:07	5
06	Her Master's Voice Andrew Hewitt	1:02	5
07	Blood Thicker Than Water Andrew Hewitt	1:52	6
08	Through A Glass Darkly Andrew Hewitt	1:07	6
09	Crossing The Line Andrew Hewitt	0:56	5
10	Dripping Footsteps Andrew Hewitt	2:12	6
11	Upstairs Andrew Hewitt	1:32	5
12	You Mean, Hearing Things Andrew Hewitt	3:13	6
13	Tangible Truth Andrew Hewitt	1:55	6
14	I Spy Andrew Hewitt	2:36	5
15	Lone Wolf Andrew Hewitt	1:59	6
16	Polly's Choice Andrew Hewitt	2:57	6
17	End Credits Andrew Hewitt	1:50	6

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Reviewers Rating

1 review done for this album.

Hewitt has composed a top-notch score that has a chance to flourish away from the film.

By:	MainTitles
Date:	21 Aug 2011
Rating:

Written by Alan Rogers - Review of the regular release

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“Cuckoo – Part 1” sets the composer's stall out from the start, highlighting a two-note motif played in the strings that appears time and time again throughout the score; a motif based on a cuckoo's call. This motif is manipulated in a variety of ways – in this first track alone the motif descends down the musical scale before being raised to a high register, screeching the motif out in a musical scream. The motif is slowed down in tracks such as “Scarlett Letter”, played pizzicato at such a low level that you wonder whether you are hearing it or not (“Her Master's Voice”) and played against a recurring string ostinato in cues such as “Cuckoo – Part 2” and “Tangible Truth”. Over the course of the 30-minute score there's not much variety in terms of motifs; the same motifs are repeated over and over again. Rather, the variety comes from how the two-note motif is changed and manipulated, or how the ostinato patterns are set out. Doing this, Hewitt delivers effective atmospheric as well as action-oriented music. To my mind, it's how Hewitt modifies these musical tools with such variety that makes the score “Herrmann-esque” just as much as the use of a strings-only ensemble.

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