Clark - 8/10

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto’s recent score for The Revenant set the bar for electronic soundtracks pretty high. But Chris Clark has also had an extremely good crack at building moody atmospherics with the music from this Warp Films-produced crime drama.

He’s also gone and made one of his best albums yet, too. In the past, Clark has veered between styles without always finding a clear identity, but this ebbs and flows from distant pianos to electronic crunch and terrifying drones to lyrical melodies, with motifs repeated and reworked.

Here, he’s created an ultra-coherent, often beautiful and (despite it originally being ‘just’ background music) oddly personal statement.