The Town (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score to the 2010 film The Town directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars in the lead role alongside Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper and Slaine. The film score is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley and released through WaterTower Music and Silva Screen Records label on September 14, 2010.
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Background
Harry Gregson-Williams composed the film score in his second collaboration with Affleck after Gone Baby Gone (2007), while David Buckley served as the co-composer. Much of the score was written in early-2010, however, by July 2010, with the post-production being incomplete, Gregson-Williams had written around an hour of score and with few of them were excluded to suit the final edit. The final score album consisted of 16 cues with a 41-minute duration.
Reception
Filmtracks wrote "The electronic techniques utilized here are beyond the days of their intelligent usefulness, especially in an album presentation, and Gregson-Williams and Buckley fail to adapt the thematic base of the score into these suspense cues with any of the convincing intrigue that a film like this deserves" calling it "a frustratingly underachieving and generic score." William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote "This is music to keep an audience on the edge of its seat, as expressed on a soundtrack album listeners will be able to use to test their woofers." A reviewer from ReadJunk described it "an okay score from Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley but could have been better". Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "The treacly score by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley, on the other hand, tends to distract rather than enhance." Justin Chang of Variety and Lee Marshal of Screen International called it "lenient" and "distracting". A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote "the main attraction is the blaring music of those accents."
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes: