The Brutalist - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Daniel Blumberg *Pre-Order

CD Release Date Friday 2nd May 2025
LP Release Date Friday 30th May 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Original Score, and shot in the glorious, vintage VistaVision format, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist stands as a monumental achievement in filmmaking. Opening with a mesmerizing and continuous 10-minute overture, composer Daniel Blumberg’s music sets the stage for the film’s epic narrative, which spans multiple decades and follows fictional Hungarian architect László Toth (played by Adrien Brody) as he rebuilds his life in post-war America. 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.

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.

Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the 2-LP release from Milan Records features printed sleeves housed in a gatefold package designed by The Brutalist title designer Sebastian Pardo in close collaboration with Daniel Blumberg.

TRACKLISTING  

SIDE A

1. Overture (Ship)

2. Overture (László)

3. Overture (Bus)

4. Chair

5. Van Buren's Estate

6. Library

7. Jazz Club

8. Porn

SIDE B

1. Monologue

2. Up the Hill

3. Pennsylvania

4. Bicycle

5. Steel

6. Intermission

SIDE C

1. Erzsébet

2. Handjob

3. Bath

4. Building Site

5. Ribbon Cutting

6. Picnic by the Lake

7. Gordon's Dinner

8. Looking at You

9. Vidui

SIDE D

1. New York

2. Stairs

3. Carrara

4. Marble

5. Tunnel

6. Construction

7. Heroin

8. Search Party

9. Epilogue (Venice)

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