Sight and Sound in reviewing the film commented –
“The film’s tone may change like a sea wind, but there’s much to admire in writer/director Johnny Barrington’s story of a teenage surfer struggling to cope after the loss of his father.”
“The music by Hannah Peel is no pensive underscore but bold brass cycles, pulsing with the rhythms of time and the tide.”
Discussing the brass element of the score, Hannah says –
“The brass ensemble sound really plays in to ideas of the sea, and the overwhelming power of breath, and there is something about the quality of the human through this kind of vessel, that really echoed with Johnny. Breath, tone, the almost foghorn quality of the brass, we all really enjoyed those things.”
“A Mission is my favourite cue. This is when Dondo and Sas go out on the boat together to look for Dondo’s dad. There’s a moment there of innocent beauty, it encapsulates the grief, the joy, the naivety of looking in caves for a father who has been missing for a year. And it takes you back to their young minds and I think that’s a really wonderful part of the film before it starts to get really heavy.”
Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Often inspired by the connections between science and music, her solo record career includes the shortlisted 2021 Mercury Music Prize electronic album, Fir Wave; 2016’s Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; and the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band. In 2023 Hannah Peel won the Ivor Novello Best TV Soundtrack award for her score to Sky’s Midwich Cuckoos.
Following her Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, in 2022 Hannah released a new, critically acclaimed album The Unfolding with Paraorchestra – the world’s only disabled and non-disabled integrated orchestra which went straight to No.1 in the UK Classical Chart. She went on to play headline shows with the orchestra at the Bluedot festival and the Barbican. Last year she recorded further high profile film and TV scores including Scoop for Netflix with co-composer Anne Nikitin and was Artist in Residence at Kings Place, London where Hannah debuted a new project with Chinese virtuoso percussionist Beibei Wang. They are currently recording a new album together.
Hannah is also a regular presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show, Night Tracks.
1. Cosmic Trio
2. Optimal Waves
3. 100 Percent Waterproof
4. The Dream
5. Advanced Biology
6. The Video Camera
7. The Motor
8. No Shoes
9. Dondo’s Speech
10. Waving
11. Driving Swiss Jesus
12. A Mission
13. The Pulpit
14. Sacrifice to the Sea
15. Holy Fire
16. Silent Roar
17. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – For the Love (Bonus Demo)
18. Sea and The Rocks (Bonus Demo)
19. The Tools (Bonus Demo)
