Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

a stark exercise in restraint; the drifting strings echo through a barren sonic wilderness, capturing the unforgiving coldness of the film’s environment.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis come together once more to score brand new thriller ‘Wind River’, directed by ‘Sicario’ writer Taylor Sheridan and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner. “The soundtrack to the beautiful ‘Wind River’ was first and foremost the incessant wind or the grieving silence of the snow,” Cave and Ellis said in a press release. “Amid those elemental forces, we made a kind of ghost score where voices whisper and choirs rise up and die away and electronics throb and pulse.” This is instantly reminiscent of the pair’s breath-taking scores to ‘Hell Or High Water’ and ‘Lawless’.