| Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd |
| Cover: | Mysterious_Skin_soundtrack.jpg |
| Released: | May 24, 2005 |
| Genre: | Ambient |
| Length: | 45:01 |
| Label: | Commotion |
| Producer: | Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd |
| Chronology: | Harold Budd |
| Prev Title: | Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Perhaps |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film is an album of music composed and performed by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd for the film Mysterious Skin.[1] [2] [3] The music was published on a CD inside a digipak containing images from the film.
AllMusic wrote that "the soundtrack plays as a piece, with a moody, yet darkly alluring mood prevailing throughout ... should please fans of ambient, post rock experimentation, and smart, well-executed film music." The Austin Chronicle called the music "ethereal," writing that it "subtly enriches the sense of mystery that lies at the movie's core."[4] Vice called it "both gorgeous and sad."[5]
Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, wrote: "Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie, in their score for the new Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin, do something wholly unexpected: as a horrendous story of child abuse in a Kansas town unfolds, the music sways toward a state of irrational bliss, as if to numb the pain."[6]