As the Suspiria reimagining arrives in New York and Los Angeles theaters before a wide release next week, we have been treated with the full score from Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, his first-ever in that department. Clocking in at 25 tracks over 1 hour and 20 minutes, it’s an ethereal, haunting work that provides an eerie texture to Luca Guadagnino’s divisive new film.
“There’s a way of repeating in music that can hypnotize. I kept thinking to myself that it’s a form of making spells,” Yorke said at the Venice premiere. “So when I was working in my studio I was making spells. I know it sounds really stupid, but that’s how I was thinking about it. It was a sort of freedom I’ve not had before. I’ve not worked in the format of song arrangement. I’m just exploring.”
Rory O’Connor said in his Venice review of the film, “Guadagnino has almost managed to pull off the impossible with this new Suspiria, a lavish, kitsch-porn piece of not particularly scary macabre horror that bears the director’s signature aesthetic stamp while staying loyal to the original in many ways.”
Stream the score below.
The Suspiria score is also available on vinyl.
As a bonus, watch a new music Tilda Swinton directed as part of the project Glass Handel for Visionaire. Set to a musical selection by Anthony Roth Costanzo, it features Swinton’s very own dogs enjoying life on the beach.