David Fincher's upcoming film Gone Girl will be the third time the director has partnered up with composers Trent Razor and Atticus Ross, each time to brilliant effect.
While you can't see the film until Oct. 3, you can listen to the entire Gone Girl soundtrack right now, courtesy of NPR.
Razer and Atticus previously won an Academy Award for their work on The Social Network and snagged a Grammy for their score in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Their soundtrack for Gone Girl is an hour and 26 minutes in its entirety, and plays up the drama of the film as Ben Affleck's character attempts to prove his innocence after his wife goes missing.
As the story unfolds, it comes to light that what looked like a perfect marriage on the outside was anything but, and all the while the media coverage of the controversy begins to take over a small, suburban Missouri town. The film is an adaptation of Gyllian Flynn's best-selling novel of the same name.
Did he or did he not do it? That is the question everybody wants to know. Readers of the book will have an answer, but everyone else will just have to wait and see the movie.
Check out the trailer, if you haven't already:
Talking with NPR, Fincher said the tone for the music in the film came to him while at a spa.
"I was listening to that calming, placating music and thought, 'We need to tap into this,'" Fincher said. "The movie is about the facade of the good neighbor, the good Christian, the good wife."
The score for the film takes that idea and runs with it, delivering relaxing motifs but always with hints of something more sinister lurking just under the surface. NPR describes the score as "Reznor and Ross relish being at their most beauteous, knowing that it'll make the brutal moments of Gone Girl all the more harrowing," and saying "What can start off sounding like a picnic in the park quickly reveals a black sky."
With track names like "Strange Activities" and "Still Missing," the score does a good job of avoiding spoilers for those who are anxiously awaiting the film, while still hinting at some of the plot points to come. Go ahead and give it a listen.
