CD REVIEW - GRACE


Grace
Music by Austin Wintory
BSX Records BSXCD 8865 (US)
28 Tracks 68:46 mins

BSX Records kindly sent me a sampling of their recent releases as you may have gathered from my reviews of High Road to China and Wind/A Whale for the Killing. Also in the package was Austin Wintory's score for Grace. Now, if you've been visiting this blog long enough, you will have seen my coverage of the promotional disc the composer's publicists, Costa Communications, kindly sent me at the time of the film's release. In case you missed it, my coverage of the score is at http://screensounds.blogspot.com/2009/03/austin-wintory-scores-grace-i-was.html.
You will see I was less enthusiastic about the score than I was about Wintory's previous effort, Captain Abu Raed (also available on BSX Records) and, if I had to choose one, I would definitely go for that but, should you like your film music challenging, to say the least, you can order BSX's limited edition release of Grace at http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/grorsobyauwi.html, but I would suggest you listen to the samples there first.