John Ekstrand

Life MILAN MUSIC. CD/DL

Maybe Alien Covenant would have been scarier if John Ekstrand had done the score. His music for Daniel Espinosa’s super-frightening B-movie Alien rip-off Life (2017) is a tense, claustrophobic affair, moving from the relative calm of heavenly Eno atmospheres, via Ligeti choirs, into pounding industrial hellscapes. AM