Alita: Battle Angel (soundtrack)

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Alita: Battle Angel (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Soundtrack album by
Tom Holkenborg
ReleasedFebruary 14, 2019 (digital)
February 15, 2019 (CD)
Recorded2017–2019
Genre
Length64:16
Label
Producer
Tom Holkenborg chronology
Mortal Engines
(2018)		Alita: Battle Angel
(2019)		 Terminator: Dark Fate
(2019)
No.TitleLength
1."Discovery"3:13
2."I Don't Even Know My Own Name"5:44
3."What's Your Dream?"3:16
4."Double Identity"1:54
5."The Warrior Within"3:31
6."A Dark Past"1:29
7."In Time You'll Remember"0:58
8."Nova's Orders"2:48
9."Jackers Mission"2:36
10."Unlocking the Past"3:52
11."Whose Body Is This?"2:06
12."Grewishka's Revenge"4:23
13."Broken Doll"2:34
14."With Me"5:41
15."I'd Give You My Heart"3:07
16."You Just Lost a Puppet"2:30
17."What Did You Do?"3:41
18."In the Clouds"3:56
19."Raising the Sword"1:43
20."Motorball"5:14
Total length:64:16

Reception

Holkenborg's musical approach received positive response from critics. Film Music Central wrote "Holkenborg crafts the music in a way that keeps you engaged and grounded in the story". [8] Calling it as "a great piece of work from Holkenborg", Blueprintreview 's Scott Gilliland wrote "Alita: Battle Angel isn’t a big stirring action and science fiction soundtrack as many would have expected, but, it is more like another of his recent soundtracks in ‘Tombraider’ in that it is more considered and gives the audience a chance to understand the world we are in and allow the characters to grow around evoke the feeling that although he is world building that our only focus is the main character. In this criterion he very much succeeded as he only begins to venture towards any noise and busyness in the big action set pieces and keeps any form of tech or electronica to a minimum, letting it live somewhere distant in the score." [9]

James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "a more than decent action/adventure score which does sound like it’s the work not just of a professional film composer but actually a competent one". [10] The Spill Magazine's Samantha Stevens gave 8 out of 10 for the score and said "With subtle echo effects and a grandiose string-dominated crescendo after the intro, it is simultaneously futuristic and classical, emotional and enticing." [11] Jonathan Broxton wrote "There are still areas of his work that feel inferior compared to his peers – the prominence of secondary themes being the biggest one – but, with that one caveat in mind, Alita: Battle Angel has turned out to be one of 2019’s most unexpectedly pleasant surprises. The main theme is good, the action music is enjoyably hyperactive, and the instrumental richness is truly impressive." [12] Anton Smit of Soundtrack World wrote "there is no dull moment on the album, where every minute is filled with a melody or a different rhythmic pattern". [13]

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes [14]

Production
Instrumentation
Vocals
Orchestra
Management

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Catalog NumberRef.
VariousFebruary 14, 2019— [15]
United StatesFebruary 15, 2019 CD M2-37043 [16]
[14]
March 8, 2019 Vinyl 398 166-2 [17]
[18]
FranceFebruary 19, 2019CD398 145-2 [16]
JapanMarch 6, 2019WPCR 18185
BrazilMarch 21, 2019398 145-2

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC) [19] 33
US Billboard 200 [20] 125
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [21] 50
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard) [22] 13

Awards

At the 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards, [23] [24] Tom Holkenborg received a nomination for Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film losing to Alan Silvestri for Avengers: Endgame (2019). [24] The original song "Swan Song" received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 24th Satellite Awards. [25]

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