And in the Pause There Came the Sound of BeesType *****

Originally limited to 1,000 vinyl copies sold on the Icelandic composer's US tour last year, Jóhann Jóhannsson's newly released album is something of a rediscovered treasure. The langorously retitled and extended award-winning score for Marc Craste's animated film Varmints combines elegant themes and Michaela Srumova's ethereal vocals with lush strings, delicate piano and swooning electronica to create an astonishingly sustained composition of extraordinary drama and lyricism. Revisiting ideas from such earlier compositions as Fordlandia, Englabórn, and IBM 1401: A User's Manual, And In The Pause…recalls Jóhannsson's astonishing genius to infuse his post-minimalist music with an exquisite and haunting intensity, at once strange and beautiful. See johannjohannsson.com

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