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Penguins of Madagascar
Music from the Motion Picture

 

Composer: Lorne Balfe
Label: Relativity Music Group
RRP: £13.99
Release Date: 24 November 2014


Relativity Music release Lorne Balfe's score for Penguins of Madagascar. In the movie you'll discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind, led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then…you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from destroying the world, as we know it...

Lorne Balfe delivers yet another wonderful collection of themes in his score for Penguins of Madagascar (19 tracks; 52 min, 48 sec). Given the subject matter of the movie, it's of little surprise that Balfe's main output here is of the action/adventure / spy genre.

The album opens with 'The Penguins of Madagascar', which in parts sounded very much in the vein of Danny Elfman's gothic scores. 'Antipodes' contains another Bond-esque theme along with what sounds a little like the 'Brian Song' in Monty Python's Life of Brian (which itself was based on 'Goldfinger' - even down to the Shirley Bassey sounding vocals of Sonia Jones).

'Humbolti' was probably my favourite track on the album, mainly because it's, quite impressively, a snapshot of the themes that are interwoven throughout the album.

The album closes with 'He is Dave', a wonderful homage to classic James Bond theme songs (most notably Chris Conell's 'You Know my Name' from Casino Royale).

9

Darren Rea

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