The Light Between Oceans (soundtrack)

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The Light Between Oceans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by
ReleasedSeptember 2, 2016
Genre Film score
Length62:12
Label Lakeshore
Producer Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat chronology
The Secret Life of Pets
(2016)
The Light Between Oceans
(2016)
American Pastoral
(2016)

The Light Between Oceans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2016 film of the same name featuring the original score composed by Alexandre Desplat released on September 2, 2016 by Lakeshore Records. [1] A vinyl edition of the film's score was released at a first pressing of 500 copies on October 31. [2]

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Reception

Several critical remarks for the score, considered Desplat's score as "melodic", [3] "effulgent", [4] "lush" [5] and "overcooked". [6]

Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that Desplat's "lush score washes over it like an endless tide". [7] David Ehrlich of IndieWire wrote "the swooning romances scored by the great Alexandre Desplat, the film — much like the twinkling musical tempest the French composer wrote for it — is lush and lacking in equal measure." [8] Brian Trutt of USA Today said that the composer's "majestic and stirring string and piano melodies" made the film more wonderous. [9] Den of Geek writer Mark Harrison said: "Alexandre Desplat’s uncharacteristically cloying score reaches fever pitch before the real emotional bombshells have a chance to register and by the end, it feels like you’re being led by the soundtrack rather than the story." [10] David Sims of The Atlantic wrote Desplat's "paint-by-numbers piano score builds on the soundtrack". [11] Sydney Cohen of The Michigan Daily wrote that "it’s no surprise that the score is incredible". [12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Letters"2:00
2."Tom"3:06
3."At First Sight"3:13
4."The Dinghy"2:20
5."Isabel"1:27
6."In God's Hands"4:56
7."The Rattle"2:35
8."To Resent"4:35
9."Janus"1:48
10."A Wonderful Father"3:21
11."Lucy Grace"3:33
12."Path of Light"2:36
13."The Return"3:59
14."Hannah Roennfeldt"2:19
15."Still Your Husband"4:57
16."To Forgive"1:39
17."Each Day We Spent Together"4:48
18."To Be Loved"4:58
19."The Light Between Oceans"4:02
Total length:62:12

Credits

Credits adapted from CD liner notes. [2]

Instruments
Orchestra
Management

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