The Soundtrack of My Life

Brave Tin World is The Murder Of My Sweet fifth studio album and once again the band delivers a fine slice of Cinematic/Symphonic Metal. Often compared to music giants such as Within Temptation, Nemesea and Delain, The Murder of My Sweet are Sweden’s answer to those dutch acts. The band’s new album musically follows on the heels of the previous record, with a more straight-ahead songwriting approach, but still offering the symphonic and cinematic elements the band is now well-known for. Brave Tin World showcases a Nordic sound that the members of the band grew up listening to and lyrically takes on issues in tune with our modern day life.

Varese Sarabande will release a soundtrack album for Casey Affleck’s second feature directorial effort Light of My Life. The album features the film’s original music composed by Daniel Hart (Pete’s Dragon, The Old Man and the Gun, A Ghost Story, The Exorcist, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 16 and will be available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Light of My Life is written and directed by Affleck who also stars in the movie alongside Anna Pniowsky, Tom Bower and Elisabeth Moss. The drama follows a father and his young daughter as they become trapped in the woods in a post-pandemic world. The movie premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and will be released in select theaters and on VOD this Friday, August 9 by Saban Films.

A father and his young daughter become trapped in the woods in a post-pandemic world. This drama film written and directed by Casey Affleck. It stars Affleck, Anna Pniowsky, Tom Bower, and Elisabeth Moss. Music by Daniel Hart, (The Old Man & a Gun).

Before their work on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack made the Bee Gees disco stars, their mid-'60s material found the Gibb brothers already a few years into what would be an astonishingly long and successful career and working on more baroque, Beatlesque radio pop. While international fame met the Bee Gees with their somewhat mistitled 1967 album Bee Gees' 1st, the brothers had actually already recorded multiple records that only ever saw release in Australia for the Festival label. Morning of My Life: Best of 1965-1966 collects 24 standout tracks from early Festival recordings, none of which made it too far out of Australia. These early compositions find the band ranging from gentle folk-tinged numbers like "Butterfly" and "In the Morning (Of My Life)" to garage rockers like "I Want Home." For completists, Festival Album Collection: 1965-1967 repackages these early lost pop platters in their entirety, including all the songs from The Bee Gees Sing & Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs, Spicks and Specks, and Turn Around Look at Us.~Morning of My Life: Best of 1965-1966 Review by Fred Thomas