Possum (soundtrack)
| Possum | ||||
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| Released | 30 November 2018 | |||
| Studio | Tempus Fugit | |||
| Length | 1:13:57 | |||
| Label | Room 13 | |||
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The film score to the 2018 psychological horror film Possum directed by Matthew Holness, featured music composed by the sound effects and experimental electronic music studio The Radiophonic Workshop. It is their first soundtrack purposely constructed for a feature film, after the studio's initial disbandment and online revival in 2012. After some of Radiophonic Workshop's music were temped into the final edit which Holness likened to it, he and the music editor Tommy Boulding approached the studio members to obtain permission for their use of music. The studio then agreed to compose the film after watching the final edit.
The soundtrack to Possum was announced during late-September 2018 and released under the Room 13 label on 30 November in digital downloads and CDs, followed by a vinyl edition which released on June 2021. The album accompanied 29 tracks of the studio's score constructed for the film, along with the original member Delia Derbyshire's unreleased materials and pre-mixes. It received positive reviews from critics, who noted the unsettling and creepy tone matched the mood of the film.