TIM HECKER
The North Water OST INVADA
Frozen soundscapes from Canadian sound artist
7/10
The path from “experimental musician” to “acclaimed film composer” has been well trod these last few years. Following a good two decades refining his artful take on drone music, Tim Hecker made the leap with BBC2’s The North Water, a chilling Arctic period drama starring Colin Farrell as a grizzled, possibly psychotic whaler. Blending orchestral music and electronics, Hecker’s score captures the cold, barren dread of the Arctic, but also moments of stark beauty: see the glinting synths of “Our First Whale”, or “Winter’s Coming”, a lonely piece for treated cello that is pretty and foreboding in equal measure.