Sicario [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Personnel: Olafur Björn Olafsson (percussion).
Audio Mixers: Daniel Kresco; Jóhann Jóhannsson; Maurizio Borgna.
Liner Note Author: Denis Villeneuve.
Recording information: Orchestra Recorded at Hungarian Radio Studio 22, Budape; The Bank, Los Angeles, Ntov, Berlin, Gufunes Radíó, Rey.
Editor: Joseph S. Debeasi.
Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who crafted the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated piano-and-strings-centered score for the 2014 biopic The Theory of Everything, created a very different type of score for the action/crime film Sicario, released in 2015. A mix of quietly emotive, violin-led symphonic song and distorted, dissonant, percussive orchestral noise, Sicario [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] delivers tension and off-kilter anxiety in both hushed and hyper musical moments. Jóhannsson and film director Denis Villeneuve previously collaborated on 2013's Prisoners. ~ Marcy Donelson