Chemical brothers who is hanna

Drum parts with little time to develop and whooshy incidentals occupy most of the sonic space here. The duo include so-called songs no longer than 11 seconds, and have the temerity to resequence some of the music for no good reason. The Chemical Brothers made music for Hanna , sure, but unlike and apart from the movie they make no grand statement. One gets the sense they should have gone whole hog one way or the other—fan-challenging ambience, or a targeted application of their loops of fury.

We got a little of both, so in effect we got neither. Adam Blyweiss. Click here - to select or create a menu. Hanna is a film about a "badass survivalist girl" ; the Chemical Brothers have never seemed particularly badass, but it's fair to count them as survivalist, both because last year's Further was their best record in ages and they're the only act from the lates electronica boom making music anyone would want to listen to.

The Chems are known for welding techno beats to a distinctly rock aesthetic, and for much of the past 10 years they have functioned exactly like a rock band: standard album-tour-relax schedule, few collaborations, monster festival-headliner gigs. And they can refer to themselves as "superstar DJs" all they like, but their last widely available DJ mix came out in For fans of the Brothers, Hanna represents the shockingly rare opportunity to hear a work by the duo whose intentions fall outside their longtime M.

I haven't seen Hanna ; it appears to be a thriller set in Eastern Europe with a young female protagonist-- gifted in the art of action-- who eludes a ruthless intelligence operative. Digitized techno mysticism has been a go-to soundtrack of choice for this genre ever since The Bourne Identity rubber-stamped Moby's "Extreme Ways" as the perfect mix of heady paranoia, Euro style, and kicking things.

The Chems-- with their widescreen sound, relentless bravado, and sturdy belief in entertainment-as-art-- are well suited for this kind of work.

The band isn't deft enough to avoid the mewling vocals and tinkly music-box of the repeated "Hanna's Theme" pathos: noted but it's also not deft enough to apply any subtlety or grace to the Eastern scales and pulsing beat of "Escape ", which is kind of the point.

This is a band accustomed to soundtracking a light show that would put most stadium rock bands to shame; the chances of them easing off the gas or thinking too hard about the marriage of music and cinema were slim. The soundtrack offers some of the hard-charging thrills the Chems avoided on Further , and it does so in an environment in which the onus of excitement isn't placed solely on the duo.