Les Revenants (album)
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| Soundtrack album by Mogwai | ||||
| Released | 25 February 2013 | |||
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Post-rock TV programme score |
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| Label | Rock Action | |||
| Producer | Mogwai | |||
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| Metacritic | 77 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10) |
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Les Revenants is an original soundtrack album by Mogwai, for the French TV series of the same name. Mogwai were initially contacted by producers of the television show, and asked to begin producing music after reading only a few translated scripts. An extended play of the soundtrack, Les Revenants EP, was released in 2012, and the full album was released on 25 February 2013.
Mogwai had previously produced well-received soundtracks for documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and Darren Aronofsky's film The Fountain. These were released as albums Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and The Fountain, both in 2006. Daniel Ross, writing for the BBC, compared Les Revenants to these previous soundtracks, saying that it is "a little more expected, suited and basically in tune with how you might imagine a new Mogwai record to sound";post-rock has had a strong association with zombie films since music by Godspeed You! Black Emperor featured in 28 Days Later. Though characterised as about zombies, Les Revenants, broadcast in the UK as The Returned, features the dead coming back to life and returning to the town in which they once lived, seemingly as they were, and not as archetypal zombies.
Mogwai were contacted by the television show's producers and asked to start writing music before filming had begun. Band-member John Cummings said that
We didn't know what the overall tone was going to be like - we'd seen the first couple of scripts in English, but the rest of them weren't translated and we hadn't seen any footage, so it was a bit stab in the dark, but they seem to have a decent view of the things they wanted, so from the things we sent they were choosing different ones.
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