Silva Screen Records releases the original television soundtrack to Patience. The music is composed by Hannes de Maeyer and Ruben de Gheselle. The six-part Channel 4 series sees autistic archivist Patience Evans enter an unpredictable world when detective Bea Metcalf spots her unique crime-solving skills...

Hannes de Maeyer and Ruben de Gheselle deliver something a little out of the ordinary with their score for Patience. The album consists of 34 tracks (1 hr, 01 min, 52 sec) and it flits from standard TV drama fare, to experimental, atmospheric electronic themes, to classical music.

Discussing the music, Hannes de Maeyer says: "For Patience we created a score that embraces both her complex inner world and the tension of a police drama. On the one hand, we immersed ourselves into her emotional world in which she balances between her neurodiversity and a turbulent past. Strings, clarinet, vibraphone and piano give sound to her deepest emotions and thoughts. On the other hand, the music also had to keep the viewer on the edge of his seat, matching the tension and dynamics of a police drama. The crime cases were musically supported by a fusion of synths, orchestral textures and percussion, seamlessly interweaving exploration and action into the score, making Patience's score as layered and diverse as its main character."

It opens and concludes with the show's main theme - a strong, memorable sequence that is soft and subtle. In between these two tracks is a catalogue of richly layered pieces. There's standard suspense segments (as can by heard in pieces like 'Following Patience'), laid back, melancholic pieces (in tracks like 'Reflection') and unsettling pieces (like 'Finding the Cigar'). I personally found the piano based 'Solving Crimes Isn't Like Solving Puzzles' to be one of the highlights, with its wonderfully melancholic approach.

The main theme is woven throughout, most notably in tracks like 'Capacity Max 6 Persons', 'Previously', 'Arriving at the Museum' and 'What About You Know Who'. And if I had one very small issue, it's that the main theme crops up a little too much. Thankfully, however, it's always presented as a variation on the theme.

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Darren Rea