July 12, 2019

Soundtrack to new movie 'Midsommar' - reflects our changing perspectives of the horrors of humanity

British musician Haxan Cloak, aka Bobby Krlic, made the soundtrack for Ari Aster's 'Midsommar', a horror movie about five young Americans who are visiting Sweden to take part in a 90-year-old solstice festival, and it doesn't really end well for them. The plot might be well known, but Haxan Cloak's take on creepy folk music is different - "working skilfully with a modest, mostly-stringed timbral palette, Krlic incorporates the traditional Swedish nyckelharpa and the hurdy-gurdy to underpin the conventional themes and create an unsettling wheezing groan", the Quietus says.