"Ben Lovett’s score is also a major factor in establishing the unshakable dread associated with the evil you know is haunting the land, as is the impeccable sound design that provides one bone-chilling jolt after the next."
— Collidera
"Ben Lovett’s score drips with atmosphere and dread and serves to ratchet up the tension as the full terror builds to its explosive conclusion. It is, in short, a folk horror masterpiece and signals the arrival of a truly unique voice in cinema."
— Beyond Fest
"Ben Lovett’s airy but portentous score, is, despite Lizzie’s best efforts, explicitly a place of death nested inside other deaths."
— Variety
"Ben Lovett delivers an amazing and truly complimentary, if not heightening score."
— Morbidly Beautiful
"Tense, exciting, and most definitely terrifying… the music alone is enough to scare the crap out of you."
— The Playlist
"Whether it’s synthesizers or orchestras, Ben Lovett is a master at helping to tell stories through music."
— Vehlinggo
"Well-placed and subdued string instruments plucking spookilly in the background behind particularly tense moments, in a score by Ben Lovett."
— Nightmare on Film Street
"A driving score was composed for the film by Ben Lovett (The Ritual) using period instruments like the nyckelharpa to produce an earthly, haunting sound that plays on a base instinct we’ve long since forgotten."
— iHorror
"With a unique score, wonderful cinematography and special attention paid to sound design, The Wind is a singular moviegoing experience and one worth seeing in theaters."
— Moviemaker
"The haunting, jittery score by Ben Lovett allows us to share Lizzy’s growing unease and claustrophobia."
— Rue Morgue
"Accompanied by composer Ben Lovett’s unsettling score, The Wind burrows its way under your skin a sliver at a time."
— Killer Horror Critic
"There is a deep and organic resonance between the various elements in the movie that seem to be orchestrated into a whole by the film’s titular element, while Ben Lovett’s understated score features harmonics that pleasantly ride shotgun. Or at least it appears to be the case by design, and that requires restraint and maturity."
— LatinHorror.com
"Ben Lovett’s score is scintillating in a chilling horror pic way."
— Dennis Schwartz Reviews
"The composer and sound editor work overtime to unsettle you with screechy, atonal strings and jack-in-the-box sound effects."
— Entertainment Weekly
"The score by the composer known as Lovett is also a delight to listen to; by turns haunting, melodic and oppressive it fits perfectly within the film and works well as a standalone album as well."
— Setthetape.com
The Wind
[Vinyl]
Emma Tammi’s supernatural Great Plains horror THE WIND expertly captures the austere isolation of life on the prairie in 19th Century America through the eyes of frontierswoman Lizzy Macklin (Caitlin Gerard). The haunting and often dissonant score from Ben Lovett (THE RITUAL) is itself a key character in the story. Using a bass flute, a traditional Swedish keyed violin called a Nyckelharpa, a handmade door bell, sound design, and non-traditional manipulation of orchestral music, Lovett brilliantly portrays the ominous sense of evil that permeates the sparse frontier.
The mysteries of the wind are ever pervasive on Lovett’s score, which breathes a ferocious sense of foreboding into Tammi’s film. Each blast of the monstrous bass flute conjures the unforgiving demons said to haunt the plains. The bend of the bow on the often histrionic strings strikes an existentially eerie air. The percussion slaps us awake from our nightmares while creating new ones.
The film and Lovett’s score show how isolation can be the greatest horror of all. The holes in human connection on the plains leave room for malevolent entities to fill in the gaps. Or maybe it’s just the wind. — Aaron Vehling, Vehlinggo.com
Pressed on 180 Desolate Demon vinyl. Gatefold sleeve with insert. Numbered edition of 666.
