Jonny Greenwood's score of 'The Master': Listen to a track

Radiohead sound-maker pairs with Paul Thomas Anderson yet again

<p>Philip Seymour Hoffman in &quot;The Master&quot;</p>

Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master"

Credit: The Weinstein Company

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Judging from all the trailers of "The Master," some of the themes seem to be dealing with the disorienting feeling that down is up, and what you know is never the full truth. And listening to a bit of Jonny Greenwood's work for the film, the score will be rolling with that tide.

"Application 45 Version 1" is the track that you'll get if you pre-order Nonesuch's Sept. 11 drop of the soundtrack to the Paul Thomas Anderson film. And it'll have you poking around for the downbeat, wondering if it's minor or major and generally exciting the jitters that are beyond your 4 p.m. cup of caffeine. The cello is enough to give you goosebumps.

This is the second time Greenwood and Anderson have teamed up, after their phenomenal combination on "There Will Be Blood": the score to that film was ruled ineligible for a soundtrack Academy Award, as it included previously recorded material. However, it did earn a Grammy nod for Best Score Soundtrack but lost out to "The Dark Knight" because, man, seriously.

Something tells me Greenwood has his lesson learned and has conjured some all-original, newly recorded hauntings for this guy: he probably wants that nomination. In Contention is surmising that it's... already in contention, up against, perhaps, Mychael Danna's "Life of Pi" and John Wiliams' "Lincoln" scores.

"The Master," starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, is out in theaters on Sept. 14 and has already screened in Chicago and Santa Monica.

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    Esther

    The track is so amazingly beautiful. I can't wait for the whole score to come out.

    August 17, 2012 at 9:46PM EST Reply to Comment
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    weed4504

    He actually didn't learn his lesson. Here is the tracklist for the soundtrack....

    1 Overtones
    2 Time Hole
    3 Back Beyond
    4 Get Thee Behind Me Satan – Performed by Ella Fitzgerald
    5 Alethia
    6 Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) – Performed by Madisen Beaty
    7 Atomic Healer
    8 Able-Bodied Seamen
    9 The Split Saber
    10 Baton Sparks
    11 No Other Love – Performed by Jo Stafford
    12 His Master's Voice
    13 Application 45 Version 1
    14 Changing Partners – Performed by Helen Forrest
    15 Sweetness of Freddie

    Unfortunately, track 10, "Baton Sparks", was previously recorded and released on a Jonny Greenwood/Krzysztof Penderecki collaboration album.

    I still have yet to hear how that is a big no-no and The Artist using the main theme of Vertigo for 10-15 minutes of the film isn't a big deal at all. Is it really just because he wrote the track and The Artist used a track someone else wrote?

    August 17, 2012 at 10:48PM EST Reply to Comment
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      velocityknown I think PTA and Greenwood are the types to be less concerned with awards and more concerned about what works best in the film.

      But the Academy rules are ridiculous, especially for music.

      August 18, 2012 at 9:33AM EST

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