Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

by Oliver Coates

supported by

lkc404 Aftersun is a great movie, and it will not be that great if there isnt mr coates's music to support the editing style. Favorite track: Last Dance (score).

G Norton Amazing movie and amazing score. Thanks Mr. Coates. Favorite track: One Without.

Stel My favourite score by Mr Coates up to now. Sublime.

Michael Duffy Just stunning melancholy...in a world of discordant noise I need these sounds to help soothe a troubled soul...🖤🖤🖤

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7.99 USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is the retail variant pressed on cream vinyl

The record comes housed in a deluxe spined sleeve with double sided printed insert and download card.

Includes unlimited streaming of Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 98 days

5 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

£22.99 GBP or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Digipack CD

Includes unlimited streaming of Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 98 days

Purchasable with gift card

£11.99 GBP or more
Cassette + Digital Album
Sea blue cassette shell

Includes unlimited streaming of Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 5 days

4 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

£10.99 GBP or more

1.	Memory Opening 01:20	buy track
2.	One Without 04:02	buy track
3.	Bus 02:03	buy track
4.	DVCAM 01:26	buy track
5.	Swimming pool - sky 02:55	buy track
6.	Boat 01:35	buy track
7.	Ocean>Rave 02:13	buy track
8.	Gliders peace of mind 02:57	buy track
9.	Tai Chi 02:59	buy track
10.	Sophie pool with the guys 02:09	buy track
11.	Night 04:27	buy track
12.	Limit 04:03	buy track
13.	Happy Birthday Sophie 02:22	buy track
14.	Last Dance (score) 02:38	buy track

about

(Cellist, composer and electronic music producer, Oliver Coates’ score for Aftersun, directed by Charlotte Wells and starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, is out now via Invada / Lakeshore.

The score, lighter and more delicate than Oliver Coates’ previously released music, functions as shadows or half-glimpses, a glowing form of ambient music which adds emotional colour to the cinematography.

Aftersun features ‘One Without’, the much talked about piece of music used in the final scene and credits – the one that audiences have been known to sit in silence through the credits for. ‘One Without’ was made away from the film after the composer’s first meeting with Charlotte Wells, the director. On it, the strings are reversed and sped up a little, Each harmony has the next chord bleeding into it because of the reversed tails. The string vibrato is slightly unreal because the playback is faster and Coates explains that the “whole score is derived from the music within this final piece.”

The film is a poetic meditation and gradual emotional arc towards the presence of absence, of another story not revealed. It is the light of the camera work, the physical gait of the actors and the music which come together in a climatic resolution.

Coates’ score stands for memory within the film, a growing awareness that the film might be a memory trawl to try and make sense of trauma. The score makes the film feel like it is starting to become self-aware, like a film within a film.

Over time the score develops and helps the viewer move beyond the naturalistic and the diegetic. It is made of simple elements, old synths, reversed and slowed down strings. These, the composer explains “gradually reveal the sluggishness in Calum’s (Paul Mescal) demeanour, suggesting something hanging over him.”

credits

released January 13, 2023

Composed, produced and engineered by Oliver Coates
Musical sound design: Johan Nilsson
Score Mixer: Chris Elms
Mastered by Amir Shoat

license

about

Oliver Coates Glasgow, UK

contact / help

Contact Oliver Coates

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), you may also like:

Promises
by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

supported by 31 fans who also own “Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”

Magic in its purest form. I love Floating Points, I love Pharoah Sanders, I love The London Symphony Orchestra. It's a match made in heaven, and the result is absolutely gorgeous. I have loved this record since its release, and realized I don't own it for some reason. So its time to change that. 9.5/10 honestly could become a 10/10 on an indepth vinyl relisten. angrypizza98
go to album
hybtwibt?
by Space Afrika

supported by 30 fans who also own “Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”

i haven't been through what you've been through, but i want to understand everett
go to album
Living Torch
by Kali Malone

supported by 30 fans who also own “Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”

My heart is beating slower and faster at the same time kwellou
go to album
暮光夜寻 Twilight Diaries
by 刘一纬 Liu Yiwei

Ambient classical album “Twilight Diaries” employs a ring-like musical structure to examine memory and flashbacks. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 25, 2023
go to album
Linoleum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
by Hark Madley

The score for the quirky film starring Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn uses a lush pallette of synths to evoke a wide range of moods. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 6, 2023
go to album
Common Ground vol.2
by Safe Ground Rec.

Assembled by LB Marszalek, this charity compilation showcases an array of ambient trendsetters. Bandcamp Album of the Day Dec 9, 2022
go to album
UNTITLED (Black Is)
by SAULT

supported by 28 fans who also own “Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”

this feels important twigs
go to album