[Thor Joachim Haga]

Rami Nakhleh’s STRANGER (2024) — now here’s a good example of a score that is almost exclusively textural, but with INTERESTING, engrossing textures connoting foggy, earthy landscapes. Those nervous string instrument pluckings, the eerie use of reverb, some form of glass harmonica? Deep sense of melancholy. Doesn’t need any pronounced melody to function. Just totally hypnotizing as an album (I’ve not seen the film).