Release: August 4th, 2017
Purchase: Fire Records
Price: £19.99
Note: "Green and purple marbled" colored vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies, Fire Records exclusive
The perfect complement to the woozy, paranoid, not-too-distant future captured in Richard Linklater's adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, the film's score features compositions by Graham Reynolds and performances by his group, the Golden Arm Trio. The album is full of quicksilver changes in mood and sound, highlighting the surreal atmosphere of the post-war-on-drugs America that the film creates. Strands of post-rock, electronica, jazz, and vintage rock are woven and recombined throughout the album for unusual juxtapositions like "Aphids," which mixes frantic, scrabbling percussion with twangy guitars out of some long-lost spy movie theme, and "Strawberry Pie," which has syrupy-sweet pedal steel and brushed drums that recall classic instrumental pop like Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk." Elsewhere, as on the title track and "Little Blue Flowers," a brooding, almost bleak mood emerges. Hallucinatory and evocative, A Scanner Darkly is the musical embodiment of a bad trip -- but that's a compliment.
1 7 Years From Now
2 Aphids
3 Swallowed Up In Victory
4 Strawberry Pie
5 The Dark World Where I Dwell
6 Sex, Beer And Pills
7 A Farm Near The Mountains
8 Bug-Bite Squared
9 Pose As A Nark
10 Do You Like Cats?
11 A Scanner Darkly
12 Abrasocaine
13 Part Of The Plan
14 Are You Experiencing Any Difficulties?
15 Your Move, Peterbilt
16 Room 203
17 Escorted To The Bright Lights
18 You’ll See The Way You Saw Before
19 A New Path
20 Little Blue Flowers
21 Darkly Mix
22 Call Sign/Aleph:/
Purchase: Fire Records
Price: £19.99
Note: "Green and purple marbled" colored vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies, Fire Records exclusive
The perfect complement to the woozy, paranoid, not-too-distant future captured in Richard Linklater's adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, the film's score features compositions by Graham Reynolds and performances by his group, the Golden Arm Trio. The album is full of quicksilver changes in mood and sound, highlighting the surreal atmosphere of the post-war-on-drugs America that the film creates. Strands of post-rock, electronica, jazz, and vintage rock are woven and recombined throughout the album for unusual juxtapositions like "Aphids," which mixes frantic, scrabbling percussion with twangy guitars out of some long-lost spy movie theme, and "Strawberry Pie," which has syrupy-sweet pedal steel and brushed drums that recall classic instrumental pop like Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk." Elsewhere, as on the title track and "Little Blue Flowers," a brooding, almost bleak mood emerges. Hallucinatory and evocative, A Scanner Darkly is the musical embodiment of a bad trip -- but that's a compliment.
1 7 Years From Now
2 Aphids
3 Swallowed Up In Victory
4 Strawberry Pie
5 The Dark World Where I Dwell
6 Sex, Beer And Pills
7 A Farm Near The Mountains
8 Bug-Bite Squared
9 Pose As A Nark
10 Do You Like Cats?
11 A Scanner Darkly
12 Abrasocaine
13 Part Of The Plan
14 Are You Experiencing Any Difficulties?
15 Your Move, Peterbilt
16 Room 203
17 Escorted To The Bright Lights
18 You’ll See The Way You Saw Before
19 A New Path
20 Little Blue Flowers
21 Darkly Mix
22 Call Sign/Aleph:/
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it's a good film, anyway. 
