Your opinion on Ludwig Goransson?

[mxsch 67]

I like him so much, because of his unique style and great incorporation of beats.

His scores for Creed 1, 2, Black Panther, The Mandalorian and Tenet are absolute bangers.

[Edmilson 1707]

Lol, I was just listening to Tenet right now!

 

I like him and I thought his Emmy and his Oscar were well deserved. He is still young, so I think we have yet to hear his best work.

[Erik Woods 295]

He's written some outstanding material - Creed films and Black Panther - but stuff like Venom, Tenet and a good chunk of Mandalorian has been an utter let down. 

-Erik-

[The Big Man 7205]

I like his Mandalorian song

[Jay 18333]

I like his Mandalorian scores a lot but everything else I've tried didn't do anything for me

[bruce marshall 490]

BP is very good ( cue Thor to disagree😉).

Put it on CD dammitt!

[Jay 18333]

I listened to that OST, it did nothing for me

[Nick Parker 2884]

Creed 2 is what made me excited for his announcement as the Mandalorian composer.

[Jay 18333]

I haven't checked that one out yet! 

[Nick Parker 2884]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

I haven't checked that one out yet! 

 

 

 

[Datameister 1057]

I'm most familiar with his work on The Mandalorian, which I really enjoy - especially the brassy theme heard near the beginning of the end credits. I've heard Black Panther but it didn't particularly interest me. And I'm watching New Girl, but the music is so unobtrusive that I forget to listen for it.

 

Beyond that, not really sure. But he sure has an amusingly laid-back vibe in all the interviews I've seen with him!

[mxsch 67]

1 hour ago, Nick Parker said:

 

 

 

Runnin' is another great highlight for me, even with some cringey lines, the idea of merging orchestra with rap is incredible.

[Manakin Skywalker 1782]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

I like his Mandalorian scores a lot but everything else I've tried didn't do anything for me

 

I have to agree. I really like his work on The Mandalorian, but everything else of his I've listened to just seemed to be your average contemporary film score.

[Arpy 3708]

I wish he would tone back the electronic blibbity-bloo and overall tone of the Mandalorian. He has this amazing theme that is then placed among these techno beats that instantly sour my interest.

 

[NL197 193]

23 minutes ago, Arpy said:

I wish he would tone back the electronic blibbity-bloo and overall tone of the Mandalorian. He has this amazing theme that is then placed among these techno beats that instantly sour my interest.

 

I'm the opposite, in that I love when he uses the electronics and occasionally makes it a kind of "Star Wars goes Gangsta" sound. Love it. 

[Jay 18333]

Yea, it's perfect for the show the way it is

[Arpy 3708]

There are whole scenes that instead of featuring any exciting music are scored by a droning, pulsing beat. Sometimes I really love how he's incorporated the electronic elements, but those moments are few and far between.

[Bespin 4216]

If we talk about about The Mando, I feel random music where used in almost every scene. That was distracting most of the time.

 

I'm not saying music is not good, but it doesn't always fit the scenes.

 

[Mephariel 51]

He is a great talent that has yet to show his best imo. I love Black Panther and Creed 1 and 2. But he doesn't always score to the level that his capable of. 

[Not Mr. Big 2810]

One of the most promising new film composers right now

[artguy360 1059]

Creed and Black Panther are great. Mando is good. Tenet is blah. I think he is a rising talent whose best scores are still ahead of him.

[Quintus 5087]

His Mandalorian theme is fabulous but I am unaffected by his underscore, I think it lacks texture, verve and storytelling substance. 

 

To be fair to the chap though, I haven't listened to enough of his work in order to be able to make a proper fair assessment of him as a composer. 

[Thor 3731]

I absolutely hate him (not him, personally, but his music).

 

A one-trick pony who either does second-rate Bill Conti all the time, or soulless ostinati and pale, textural colours. He's just as bad as Giacchino, in my opinion - i.e. an "Emperor's New Clothes"-type composer that everyone raves over, even though there's nothing there -- and that 'intrudes' into films and franchises I like and partially destroy my appreciation of them.

 

I wish he never sat his eyes on film music.

[GerateWohl 323]

Since I am more interested in music than in sound, his music doesn't give me much. He is experimenting a lot with different instruments and sounds. But musically there is not much interesting happening in his scores as far as I can hear it.

[MaxTheHouseelf 63]

I also don't like his stuff that much.

 

Tenet is a really weird sounding score IMO, it's nowhere as through produced like Zimmers work, sounds like he picked the first random synth presets he got and mingled all together.

That 747 track is a cheap Zimmer Inception rip off. No other ideas to score this scene? Using the truck siren in Trucks in Place is a nice idea but having this drop in there doesn't fit at all to the scene and style of music he used in the film and stands out weirdly. Feels like he couldn't decide for a style of music to score the film with, and the score lacks identity. Like @GerateWohl said, a lot of experimenting but no real direction to go with the music.

 

So overall, his music doesn't really stand out to me. The Mando theme is nice though.

[Quintus 5087]

Whenever a contemporary film composer says they like to experiment with different sounds, that is normally alarm bells. 

 

All these keyboard players trying to be the next Morricone. 

[mstrox 4091]

I’ve only heard Mandalorian and Black Panther I think, and they’re both real good.  He’s also a talented hip hop producer and he has long lustrous hair. 

[rough cut 864]

Besides Mandalorian, the only soundtrack of his that I’ve checked out is Black Panther, and that one didn’t do much for me.

 

But the theme song for Mando - wow, what a banger! Me and the missus spend our days humming that one as we spend our days locked up waiting for this virus thing to pass.

[Quintus 5087]

The theme tune is absolutely brilliant, and just what TV needed. 

 

It's one of the areas The Witcher went wrong, they completely forgot about the all-important musical signature for the titular character. I mean, what a dumb oversight!

[Nick Parker 2884]

One of the things I really enjoy about Goransson, moreso in his feature length scores, are his dramatic instincts in terms of spotting and textures. I keep harping on Creed 2, but I loved that there would be conservation scenes between characters that would go unscored for minutes. Then a character would say a pivot line, and something intimate like a harp and french horn would come in. Felt really old-school and satisfying

 

 

And those strings around the end? Hard to imagine many other film composers now writing those.

[GerateWohl 323]

Like Göransson himself said to John Favreau in the Galeria episode about the Mando score: "If you would have expected something like a Williams score we would have had a problem."

 

But I have to admit, the Mando theme does its job well, but it is not what I would call a brillant composition. 

[Romão 1429]

3 hours ago, Quintus said:

His Mandalorian theme is fabulous but I am unaffected by his underscore, I think it lacks texture, verve and storytelling substance. 

 

To be fair to the chap though, I haven't listened to enough of his work in order to be able to make a proper fair assessment of him as a composer. 

 

 I agree the theme is pretty cool, but I also honestly think it's the only thing by him I have ever enjoyed. I find the rest of the music in The Mandalorian to be quite uninteresting

[Quintus 5087]

Same here, for the most part. There's a couple of nice moments, but nothing to rave about. By contrast, composers like Bruce Broughton, Joel McNeely and John Debney, working on The Orville, have demonstrated what can happen when really talented score composers are given the opportunity to score a big sci-fi set piece for TV. The Mandalorian has its own set pieces, and the music does not grab the bull by the horns and lead the fuck out of those sequences like it should do. It's just there, modulating away the background, quite unnoticed.

[Jurassic Shark 6285]

His hair is impressive. I hope he never gets bald.

[Edmilson 1707]

The score to Black Panther actually reminded me of Shore's LOTR, in which a composer researches and studies music from different cultures and mix what he found with traditional orchestra. The themes are great, the action music could be a little better but is still fine, and the score really works in helping shape the movie.

[Lord Zimmer 120]

11 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

His hair is impressive. I hope he never gets bald.

 

You sob.

[bruce marshall 490]

My second favorite composer named " Ludvig"

[BLUMENKOHL 1044]

He’s promising. I want to see him push his orchestral side to new places. 
 

There are glimmers of it, but he falls back on the current orchestral/electronic tropes too often. 

[KK 2873]

6 hours ago, Romão said:

 

 I agree the theme is pretty cool, but I also honestly think it's the only thing by him I have ever enjoyed. I find the rest of the music in The Mandalorian to be quite uninteresting

 

Agreed. I think he's definitely talented. But I think he's a stronger producer than he is a composer.  His core compositional ideas aren't terribly interesting. But he has an ear for sound.

[Jurassic Shark 6285]

52 minutes ago, Lord Zimmer said:

 

You sob.

 

You're just jealous of his lush hair, HanZ.

[Romão 1429]

4 hours ago, KK said:

 

Agreed. I think he's definitely talented. But I think he's a stronger producer than he is a composer.  His core compositional ideas aren't terribly interesting. But he has an ear for sound.

 

That's a spot on observation, in my opinion

[Ollie 717]

Black Panther is fantastic, the rest....meh.

[Jurassic Shark 6285]

Is that yet another Pink Panther sequel?

[Ollie 717]

Minus Inspector Clouseau.

[Jurassic Shark 6285]

He wasn't that funny anyway.