You won’t hear a more gorgeously freaky score this year than Mica
Levi’s unnerving, scratchy and altogether seductive soundtrack to
Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin.” Like the film, about an alien
succubus among us and in the comely guise of Scarlett Johansson, the
score is weird, atonal, discordant and something to get lost in.For comparison’s sake, the score’s closest companions may be the
dissonant labyrinths of avant-garde composers Krzysztof Penderecki and
Gyorgi Lygeti, used frequently by Stanley Kubrick in “The Shining” and
“2001: A Space Odyssey.” But Levi’s work is its own alien, and at times
sounds more than a bit like far-flung Morse code from outer space.
