Oblivion’s score, while effective, is a familiar work that rarely transcends in the way it should.
In the winter of 2010, Joseph Kosinski brought us the sleek and stylized Tron: Legacy, which stumbled in the storytelling department, but undoubtedly excelled from a musical perspective thanks, in large part, to Daft Punk’s highly publicized involvement. Kosinski has taken a similar approach with Oblivion, bringing Anthony Gonzales, head of the electronic band M83, and Joseph Trapanese, who arranged music for Tron: Legacy and M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, aboard to provide music for the film