Wayne McGregor's longtime collaborator is back, and this one's a swing. The new project pulls from his score for MaddAddam, the ballet built on Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic trilogy, and it's every bit as ambitious as that sounds. Atwood's dystopia gets a soundtrack. That's a big canvas.
Anyone who's followed this composer knows the range here. The pivot from stage scoring to a standalone release feels like a natural next step, the kind of move that rewards patient listeners who stuck around through the quieter instrumental stretches of his earlier work.
Think sweeping strings, dread that creeps in slow, then a moment that lifts the whole thing. The source material practically demands scale, and the score delivers a stunner across its runtime. Three novels, one vision, plenty of tension.
This is the sound of an artist chasing something bigger than a single track. Atwood fans and score heads alike are going to find a lot to love. Press play.