Godzilla (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2014 American monster film Godzilla, composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony.
The film score was released digitally by WaterTower Music on May 13, 2014, and a separate vinyl album was launched on June 17.
Development Desplat had not composed previously for a monster film, having worked on movies such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The King's Speech (2010) and the final two Harry Potter films. He accepted the contract after being impressed with Edwards' film Monsters. He further describes the soundtrack for Godzilla as "non-stop fortissimo, with lots of brass, Japanese drums, and electric violin." Desplat described that "discovering and sustaining an emotional center against a backdrop of burning buildings, dazzling explosions and monsters" as one of his biggest challenges and to sustain this, he kept the score "organic" utilizing the various colors of an orchestra to match the nuances of the film’s ensemble cast and "emphasize these characters’ broken souls".
Track listing
Songs featured in the film and not included in the soundtrack +#TitlePerformer(s)1"Glad About That"Linda Ballentine2"Breakfast in Bed"Dusty Springfield3"The Weathered Man"The Holy Bridge Orchestra4"See the Way"LikeWize5"Ka Huila Wai"Israel Kamakawiwoʻole6"My Heart Can Feel the Pain"The Tonettes7"(You're the) Devil in Disguise"Elvis Presley8"Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, 2 Mixed Choirs and Orchestra" by György LigetiFrankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus
Future For the sequels in MonsterVerse, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Bear McCreary and Tom Holkenborg respectively composed the film scores for the counterparts. While McCreary used samples from Desplat's score in Godzilla, and had also incorporated Akira Ifukube's Godzilla themes, Holkenborg produced new themes for Godzilla vs. Kong, disregarding Ifukube's and Desplat's themes.
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