"In My Sleep" Soundtrack: What Reviewers are Saying

Sampling of reviews of the soundtrack to "In My Sleep":

IN MY SLEEP (2010) - …when you have one of Hollywood's most in-demand A-list orchestrators… at the helm, magic is bound to occur. ..Pope is an extremely talented composer … (his )gifts as an orchestrator I'm sure are indispensable to the composers who hire him; however, I would really love to see him orchestrate less and compose more. Listen to IN MY SLEEP and tell me I'm wrong. The Scorekeeper, Ain't It Cool

From his initial efforts serving as an uncredited orchestrator on seemingly

every big Hollywood blockbuster since JURASSIC PARK (including all three

of the STAR WARS first trilogy scores) up to providing additional music to

this year’s WOLFMAN, Conrad Pope has had an array of film musical

experience with which to draw from in his own film scores… While they may not be the blockbuster films for which he’s orchestrated, Pope has invested these smaller, more intimate films with the same sense of musical verisimilitude that you’ll find in any of those big film scores.

Randall Larson at buysoundtrax.com

… In My Sleep has such an incredibly diverse range of

styles crammed into such a neat little package, that at times I felt I was

listening to a 'best of' compilation of an accomplished A-lister.

Conrad Pope's music is incredible and shows such a wide range that it feels

more like a lifelong labour of love than a score banged out under deadline

for an independent movie.

I could have written a glowing passage for almost every track

on this album.

SCORE: 10 of 10

Darren Rea www.reviewgraveyard.com

Why should you buy it?: After such diverse scores as PROJECT: METALBEAST, THE RISING PLACE and PAVILLION OF WOMEN, Pope conjures his most fully realized work within indie confines, realizing the dramatic, dream-like possibilities of murder by sleepwalking from every emotional angle. There’s definitely the Williams and Desplat touch in Pope’s furious symphonic action and gossamer, dream-like melodies, with the dark romantic spirit of Bernard Herrmann inhabiting its building web of suspicion. Yet IN MY SLEEP always has a unique, entrancing voice that’s very much Conrad Pope’s, whose beautifully weird tones make IN MY SLEEP into one of the most stylistically gripping and best-performed scores of the year.

Review by Daniel Schweiger www.ifmagazine.com