There will be Jonny Greenwood

A few hours ago I was sitting in the front row of a movie theater in Framingham, watching Daniel Day Lewis' face encompass my entire neck-craning field of vision in "There Will Be Blood." The music in the film was incredible, with eerie string quartet glissandos and gradually coalescing drum cacophonies underscoring a generally unsettling feel to the whole movie. During one scene, I thought to myself, "This sounds just like a Jonny Greenwood piece from Bodysong."

Roll credits: original compositions by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead fame! I came home and immediately downloaded the soundtrack. Three listens later, it's pretty remarkable. It sounds almost 20th century Eastern European, like Gorecki or Bartok or somebody. Indeed, sections of Estonian composer Arvo Part's "Fratres" are used in the film as well -- tight, desperate violin arpeggios dancing around the 1910's California desert in search of oil and redemption.

Check out the movie, check out the soundtrack, bchang checking out.