As one of film music's more "serious" composers, Elliot Goldenthal hasn't released anything for the silver screen of late, instead concentrating on concert works, notably his opera, Grendel. However when the wife (OK, partner) comes calling for her latest film then you have to call. Mind you, at the moment she's busy firefighting on the stupendously expensive Spider-Man musical that's limping to opening night on Broadway. However, she's found time to do another Shakespeare adaptation for cinema, The Tempest.
Their last Shakespeare, Titus, ran the gamut from thumping great choral and orchestral passages to wild rock. The Tempest is a bit more coherent, but at the rock/indie end of the spectrum. Some of the wild, Goldenthal riffing is evident and the album includes a couple of Goldenthal co-composed songs, but the overall impression is that it's all a bit incidental. Goldenthal has never been a tunesmith in the traditional sense but his scores usually have some hooks to latch onto, but aside from the rockier sensibility it all just kinda passes by. Maybe it's an album best appreciated after the film.
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