CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Hallowe'en horror month continues as we profile the highly eclectic soundtrack to the 1994 dark satire Natural Born Killers. Industrial symphonies abound. 1. Actors: Crosses (It Will Come to You, 2018) Artoffact 2. Kalte: Chemotrophs (Glaciations, 2009) Dark Winter 3. The Pack AD: Thomas Hardy (Dollhouse, 2017) Cadence 4. Lindi Ortega: Pablo (Liberty, 2018) Shadowbox/Soundly 5. Donato Dozzy: For A...

Eeriely appropriate for visiting family & friends for Thanksgiving, we continue on with our horror month leading up to Hallowe'en with Michael Abels' score to Jordan Peele's 2017 thriller Get Out. 1. Cast: It's Thanksgiving for Everybody (The Bob's Burgers Music Album, 2017) Sub Pop 2. Jolin Ras: Northvan Drive-by (Northern Lights EP, 2015) self-released 3. Grouper: Thanksgiving Song (Grid of Poin...

It's the start to our semi-regular annual horror month! In the lead-up to Hallowe'en, we'll focus on scary scores for the rest of October and we start with Steve Moore's music from the 2014 indie thriller The Guest. 1. Khotin: Welcome (Beautiful You, 2018) Khotin Industries 2. Chorus: M Sunne (Black Paradise, 2014) self-released 3. Gary Numan: Stories (Dance, 1981) Beggars Banquet 4. Kid Koala & E...

It's been a while since we've had both John Barry and a space theme, so we'll mix both together with the super dark 1979 Disney live-action film The Black Hole. (We'll save Moonraker for another time.) 1. Cast: Hello! (The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording, 2011) Ghostlight 2. Amon Tobin: Encounter on Io [Lee Gamble reshape] (Dark Jovian EP, 2015) Ninja Tune 3. Eleanor Friedberger:...

Looking through past episodes, we've never done a proper profile on the legendary disco producer Giorgio Moroder. We correct that this week as we go back 40 years to his Oscar-winning score to Midnight Express. 1. Chromeo: Just Friends [w. Amber Mark] (Head Over Heels, 2018) Atlantic 2. Chad Munson: Infinity Mirror (Albedo, 2014) Magnetic Domain 3. Rachid Taha: Rock el Casbah (Tékitoi, 2004) Barcl...

Peter Ricq is one half of the local electro act Humans. Ricq also made his full-length directoral debut this year with the comedic horror film Dead Shack, so we'll profile Humans' score to that film amongst acts playing this week's Westward Music Festival. 1. The Juan Maclean: What Do You Feel Free About? (What Do You Feel Free About? single, 2018) DFA 2. E.R. Roberts: Very Hot Sauna No. 2 (Moods...

Labour Day means the return of school. What better way to kick off a year of education with selections from Anna Meredith's score to the 2018 film Eighth Grade. 1. Nova Nova vs. Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart (Love Will Tear Us Apart 7”, 2002) Curious Fox 2. Pacific Coliseum: Ocean City (Ocean City, 2017) Coastal Haze 3. Childish Gambino: Feels Like Summer (Summer Pack EP, 2018) Wolf+Rothst...

gak's back and profiling the composer Patrick Williams (1939-2018) and scores from his films Cuba and Breaking Away. We also pay tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin (1942-2018). 1. Aretha Franklin: Think (Aretha Now, 1968) Atlantic 2. A Silver Mt Zion: For Wanda (He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms, 2000) Constellation 3. Aretha Franklin: One...

Following up our recent profile on The Handmaiden, we swing from past oppression to eerily prescient dystopic future oppression with two different scores tied to adaptations of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Ryuichi Sakamoto's score from the 1990 film adaptation and Adam Taylor's music from the the television series. 1. 79.5: Boy Don't Be Afraid (Predictions, 2018) Big Crown 2. Midori Taka...

For your British Columbia Day broadcast, which lines up nicely with Vancouver Pride activities, our profile will be on the score to the 2016 South Korean erotic thriller The Handmaiden. 1. Robyn: Missing U (Missing U single, 2018) Interscope/Island/Konichiwa 2. Minimal Violence: Mass (Rapids: The 2015 Sessions 12", 2017) Jungle Gym 3. Awwful: Human (Human EP, 2017) self-released 4. Freddie James:...

Connecting a bit with last week's episode with Portishead, this week's profile is on Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury's recent score to the Alex Garland scifi horror Annihilation. 1. Golden Ages: Africa (Africa EP, 2010) self-released 2. Boards of Canada: Kid for Today (In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP, 2000) Warp 3. Jayda G & Alexa Dash: Diva Bitch (Diva Bitch 12", 2018) Freakout Cult 4. St...

Paul Wright's 2017 documentary Arcadia uses 100 years of film footage to highlight England's relationship with nature. The score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) & Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) came out digitially this summer, so prepare to bask in idyllic wonder with unusual sounds. 1. CITR: Nothing Hits the Spot... (S.U.B. Pop, 2015) CITR 2. Otha: One of the Girls (One of the Girls single, 2018) self-rel...

Long in the docks but appropriate for the summer weather, it's our yacht rock episode! Going back to the timeframe of 1976-1984 when the West Coast pop sound introduced smooth adult-oriented music to the airwaves, mixing soul, jazz, R&B and rock together with pristine production and light catchy vocals. We'll include some of the music that appeared in the cult online video series that gave Yacht R...

gak's back and he's going back 50 years to Michel Legrand's playful score to the original film version of The Thomas Crown Affair. Keep all your valuables safely secured as a heist is coming! 1. DJ Me DJ You: 9 Volt (Rainbows and Robots, 2000) Emperor Norton 2. Suzanne Kraft: Flatiron (Talk from Home, 2015) Melody as Truth 3. Dumb: Barnyard (Seeing Green, 2018) Mint 4. Wye Oak: If You Should See (...

Although he has scored many a film, Colin Stetson is gaining regard for his evil music from the 2018 supernatural horror Hereditary. There's more TD International Coastal Jazz Festival stuff and other strange sounds to kick off your summer. gak gets high on paint fumes somewhere closeby. 1. Bonobo: Break Apart [w. Rhye, Lukan's Lo-Fi Bootleg] (2017) self-released 2. Gordon Grdina's The Marrow: Tel...

Run away with us as we hear selections from the De Wolfe Music library that were used in the 1975 absurd comedy Monty Python & The Holy Grail. None of those miserable psalms to be found. 1. Bossanova: Rare Brazil (Hey Sugar, 2006) Teenbeat 2. Mount Liberation Unlimited: Clinton Space Funk (Astro Travelling Through Life EP, 2014) Junk Yard Connections 5! Alexia Avina: If I'm the One That You Need [...

We'll stay in space as we go back to 1974 with John Carpenter's debut film: Dark Star. BOMB #1 - Quakers: Glide (Quakers, 2012) Stones Throw BOMB #2 - Black Mountain: Space to Bakersfield (IV, 2016) Jagjaguwar BOMB #3 - Harold Budd: Dark Star (The Serpent [in Quicksilver]/Abandoned Cities, 1989) Opal BOMB #4 - King Cobb Steelie: Lunar Rotisserie (Project Twinkle, 1994) Lunamoth BOMB #5 - Actors: B...

The latest film tied to the Star Wars Anthology series came out recently, so we'll listen to John Powell's score to Solo. Amongst some space-related tunes, we pay tribute to astronaut Alan Bean (1932-2018) and preview the 2018 edition of Vancouver's Music Waste. Punch it Chewie! 1. Mickey Moonlight: Interplanetary Music (Interplanetary Music 12", 2008) Ed Banger 2. Tor: Moon II (Drum Therapy, 2012...

gak's back! We pay tribute to the Canadian actress Margot Kidder (1948-2018) and music from her breakout role: 1978's Superman. 1. Fever Ray: To the Moon and Back (Plunge, 2017) Rabid 2. Pekka Airaksinen: Simha (Other Power, 2012) Harmönia 3. Brian Eno & Kevin Shields: The Weight of History (The Weight of History 12", 2018) Opal 4. Blank Banshee: B:/Start Up (Blank Banshee 0, 2012) Hologram Bay 5....

Time to evade the carousel and find the sanctuary as we profile Jerry Goldsmith's bloopy score to 1976's Logan's Run. Apostrophes will be flung. 1. Deadbeat: Laetitia (Wax Poetic for This Our Great Resolve, 2018) BLKRTZ 2. Pender Street Steppers: Openin' Up (Openin' Up 12", 2014) Peoples Potential Unlimited 3. DJ Koze: Bonfire (Knock Knock, 2018) Pampa 4. Todd Terje: Johnny and Mary [w. Bryan Ferr...

There's been another recent death in the film score world, so we pay tribute to Arthur B Rubinstein (1938-2018) and music from two of his soundtracks, both from 1983: War Games and Blue Thunder. Synths galore! 1. The Beepers: Video Fever (War Games OST, 1983) Polydor 2. Up! Spiritual High (Artificial Intelligence, 1992) Warp 3. Jon Hopkins: Everything Connected (Singularity, 2018) Domino 4. Astrid...

In tribute to the Czech-American director Miloš Forman (1932-2018), we'll have selections of music from two of his films: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Man on the Moon. 1. De La Soul: The Magic Number (3 Feet High and Rising, 1989) Tommy Boy 2. E.R. Roberts: Gathering Firewood (Moods for Sauna 1 & 2, 2017) self-released THREE! Bob Dorough: Three is the Magic Number (Multiplication Rock, 1973...

The year of the dog continues as we profile Laurie Anderson's music from her 2015 documentary Heart of a Dog as she visits Vancouver this week. This feels like a Movie for Heads Exploding. 1. Laurie Anderson: White Lily (Home of the Brave, 1986) Warner Bros 2. Peripheral Vision: Chubby Cello (More Songs about Error and Shame, 2018) self-released 3. Laurie Anderson: O Superman (Big Science, 1982) W...

Time to join the pack as we listen to selections from Alexandre Desplat's jauntily brooding score to Wes Anderson's latest film Isle of Dogs. 1. Toho Symphony Orchestra: Kanbei & Katsushiro/Kikichio's Mambo [from Seven Samurai] (Isle of Dogs OST, 2018) ABKCO 2. Laurie Anderson: Walk the Dog (O Superman 12", 1981) Warner Bros 3. John Kameel Farah: Surus (Between Carthage and Rome, 2015) Bosworth 4....

Not that there's been an intentional Icelandic thread as of late, but hey, it's Mark Mothersbaugh's score to the recent Marvel film Thor: Ragnarok. We also pay tribute to TV producer Steven Bochco (1943-2018) and mostly stay new wave glossy. 1. Peggy Gou: Han Jan (Once EP, 2018) Ninja Tune 2. Daniel Avery: Radius (Slow Fade EP, 2018) Phantasy/Mute 3. Mike Post & Larry Carlton: Theme from Hill Stre...