West Dylan Thordson – Split (Original Motion Picture Score)

Split, a terrifying, breakneck thriller, centers on Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man with dissociative identity disorder whose more sinister personalities (collectively known as The Horde) kidnap three teenage girls. The plan is to feed the “impure” girls to another of Crumb’s personalities, a superhuman creature known as The Beast. The final girl, Casey Cooke (Anya Taylor-Joy) is spared because The Beast sees scars covering Casey’s body, markers of childhood abuse. Because Casey, unlike the other girls, has suffered, her heart is pure. “Rejoice,” The Beast tells her. “The broken are the more evolved.”

 

The Split score, by West Dylan Thordson, became the first collaboration between Shyamalan and the composer. Sonic, sinister and foreboding, the music was unlike any recorded for a film before. “I started by recording several loose takes of some simple harmonic bowing ideas with a cellist and violinist,” Thordson said.  “The intention was to heavily modulate the captured sounds. While playing around with an idea in the past, I’d accidentally captured something like this and wanted to explore it more. The resulting sound was extremely chaotic, unpredictable, and scary. It felt haunted and seemed to capture the otherworldly, tortured, animalistic quality I was looking for. I wanted it to feel like “Jaws,” foreshadowing the existence of this malevolent being.”

 

West Dylan Thordson is an American film music composer. He is best known for his original scores to Joy, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Foxcatcher and M. Night Shyamalan’s Split and Glass.

 

Split Original Motion Picture Score Features:

 

The Complete Film Score by West Dylan Thordson

180 Gram Double LP Yellow Colored Vinyl

Old Style Tip-On Gatefold Jackets with Satin Coating

Deluxe Packaging

Pencil and Ink Illustrations by Jonas Scharf

Colors by Dennis Calero

Heavyweight Printed Insert

 

A1 – Opening

A2 – What’s Wrong With Barry?

A3 – Dr. Fletcher In Philadelphia

A4 – A Way Out

A5 – Dr. Fletcher And The World

A6 – What Are You Up To, Dennis?

A7 – Casey Tells The Truth

B8 – Somebody Save Us

B9 – Last Rites

B10 – I Know You Want To Tell Me Something

B11 – There Are Things That Are Hard To Believe

B12 – I’m Really Sad You Feel This Way

C13 – Arrival

C14 – Meeting The Others

C15 – The Beast Is On The Move

C16 – Dr. Fletcher’s Death

C17 – Casey Meets The Beast

D18 – Kevin Wendell Crumb

D19 – The Standoff

D20 – The Rise Of The Beast

D21 – Rejoice

D22 – The Beast (Bonus Track)