Color Out of Space
Released by Milan Records, 2020
13 Tracks with a Total Running Time of 45 min.
Music by Colin Stetson

Let me start this by saying that I absolutely love the film Color Out of Space. So yes, this may make my review a little jaded, but I hope that you can at least understand why I think this score is an incredible piece of music when I’m done. So let us begin.

Watching the film, it really brings another world right in front of you, with strange and colorful things happening all around you. The music is right there giving you the audible angle to surround your ears with what your brain is seeing. It seems to just float around you while you’re listening to it, giving you a odd feeling of something… different. It may help when you have the volume cranked up!

Stetson has taken the visuals from the film and translated them into sounds. While there are a few repeating music cues here and there that resonate with you, for the most part this score is a collection of sounds. Strange sounds, like a knocking or clicking. Or maybe something coming from deep within the woods. Or maybe some kind of synthesizer on a wild mushroom trip. One of my favorite parts is this little noise or something that happens, sounding like a deep quick gurgling, like some otherworldly muffled language, that happens a few times during the score. During the track City Hall, there is a loud bellowing siren type of sound that made me feel that when our times on this earth, that will be something we will hear.

To put it in the simplest of terms, it is a audible representation of what I felt like watching the film. And that is brilliant.