Love In , his beautifully executed Serge Gainsbourg tribute Intoxicated Man gathered a clutch of sweaty reviews and more than a few friends, and now his name shares slick billing with Cave and fellow Bad Seed Blixa Bargeld on the soundtrack to the new John Hillcoat film To Have And To Hold . That, ostensibly, is the reason we're here. And To Hold incants the dynamics of Apocalypse Now in its dark passage. It's very harrowing, quite dramatic and a little bit overblown, but deliberately so. As fascinating as the dynamics of the film's core though are those of putting the core Bad Seeds trio in a studio on a different tangent to normal.
Soundtracks are a totally different musical sheet to the group score.
As Harvey says inevitably the visuals often dictate what composers can get away with musically, that and the sense, the psychology and characterisation raining from the screening. The best of the Bad Seeds comes from the fine balance between their ying and yang, the possibility that it all could explode at any second, and the unique invention that comes at the point of unity. So working on all those different source sounds which Blixa was still doing a lot of in this film as well and musical elements like that and making loops and things, everybody kind of crosses over in the end. Sometimes themes overlapped and became entwined with one another, In the end it becomes this vast thing when you're all writing and arranging together. The soundtrack are a very different part of the art form.