Hooked On Bach: How Finneas O’Connell Went Classical For Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Disclaimer’ – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comHe doesn’t just pen left-field pop and indie electronica ditties. After winning Oscars for original songs “No Time to Die” from the same-titled 007 movie, as well as, “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie –both performed by sister Billie Eilish— Finneas O’Connell goes all in on scoring this season.
And we’re not talking film, rather the AppleTV+ Alfonso Cuaron series Disclaimer starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen and Lesley Manville.
While we’ve long been acquainted with O’Connell and Eilish’s bass heavy alternative singles, in Disclaimer the former shows a completely different side of himself in what is Bach-inspired chamber piece-driven score for this noirish series about older sophisticated adults whose pasts come to haunt them, and the retribution they seek.
O’Connell’s 180 and deep-dive into classical is reminiscent of David Byrne’s pivots during his career. Not so much when that performer went to do the score to Twyla Tharp’s 1981 dance project The Catherine Wheel; which arguably echoed of the familiar sounds of The Talking Heads.
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