• Best Film Scores of 2015

    In the first of a series looking at 2015 in film, David Turpin reveals his thoughts on his favourite film scores of the year that was. The Duke of Burgundy – Cat’s Eyes Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy was my film of the year – a peerlessly kinky erotic fantasy that was also a wise and humane commentary on the limitations of fetishism.  The score, by Cat’s Eyes (a collaboration between soprano Rachel Zeffira and The Horrors’ Faris Badwan), performed a similar trick – repurposing the gauzy sounds of 70s Eurotrash erotica for more than mere pastiche.  The haunting blankness…