UNSILENT NIGHTS
Add these to your Christmas playlist…
HARRY POTTER: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACKS I-V RRP £199.99 various
Lovers of vinyl wizardry, raise your wands: windows to the past reopen with this covetable boxset of picture-disc albums from Potters I-V, featuring John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Jarvis Cocker screeching. Get the nostalgic tingles to ‘Hedwig’s Theme’, chill to ‘Voldemort’, and thrill to ‘Buckbeak’s Flight’, all while watching Harry’s face twirling.
COCO RRP £20 various
Long after ‘Let It Go’ colonised our brains, Frozen song duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have remobilised for Pixar’s music-driven Mexican Land of the Dead movie. With the Mexican Institute of Sound’s Camilo Lara on hand as musical supervisor, and further music from Germaine Franco, Adrian Molina and Michael Giacchino also interwoven, emotionally charged ear-wormery is surely a given.
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI RRP £12.99 various
On 22 May, Twitter master Luke Skywalker hashtagged #EvenMyGoosebumpsHave Goosebumps after watching a scoring sesh. No surprise there: after Michael Giacchino’s Rogue One music, John Williams returned for Ep. VIII to score whatever Rey-velations await us. After the layered reworkings of already-iconic themes in that full-bombast trailer, our goosebumps have scaled porg-ish proportions.
HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE RRP £12.99 various
Zimmer rocks the arena masses in a document of his recent global tour, issued on various AV formats with all due pomp. Put simply, expect a show, not a recital. Zimmer’s a game entertainer, multitasking at stage-front with Johnny Marr, and the music for Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar et al maxes the drama thrillingly. No Batman footage required.
OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE RRP £7.29 various
Disney sledges ever-closer to Frozen 2 with Olaf’s 21-minute solo outing, screening with Coco. After 2015’s one-song Frozen Fever, the summer-lovin’ snow-cutie’s seasonal lark has been deemed worthy of four new songs from Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson (‘When We’re Together’ is fiendishly catchy), enough to secure a release. Also included are a score suite and karaoke mixes: ear muffs at the ready.