FANTASM

Haunting and mysterious, blending piano, french horns, synthesizers, and electronic arpeggios to create a mood of uncertainty and intrigue. Beginning with a simple drone and building gradually into ever more complicated layers, the mood toggles between reassurance and uneasiness, reflecting the complicated soul of the songﾕs namesake.

3:18 · 100 BPM

Sweet and harmonious, blending acoustic guitar, Rhodes electric piano, and synthesizers creating a feeling of ease and reassurance. Staring small with interweaving keyboard lines, the charming entrance of the finger-style acoustic guitar signals that things seem to be truly looking up for our protagonist.

1:40 · 69 BPM

Haunting and mysterious, blending layers of synthetic pads, bells, and other textures to create a feeling of existential malaise. Or is it hopefulness? In this emotionally subtle piece itﾕs difficult to say. Our protagonist wasnﾕt sure either.

1:48 · 75 BPM

Tender and mysterious, blending Rhodes electric piano and ghostly synthesizer pads to create a tender, contemplative mood. In the film, Jo has just fallen asleep and is dreaming sweetly of her plane ride to the city feeling both hope and vulnerability.

4:36 · 54 BPM

Haunting and mysterious, blending layers of rich synth textures to create a sense that something big is about to happen. With this short piece as the backdrop, from back seat of her taxi Jo marvels at towering city buildings passing by in slow motion.

0:42 · 50 BPM

Alternately mysterious and resolved, blending Rhodes electric piano, rich synth textures, and drum machine to create dueling moods of uncertainty and settledness. In the film Jo has begun to fear that her new life in the city is a figment of her imagination and a fissure in her reality has appeared.

3:49 · 127 BPM

Angry and bombastic, blending aggressively dark synth textures, distorted electric guitar and electronic drums to paint a hellish picture. Beginning simply with what sounds like howling ghosts, the track explodes with ferocious aggression that never lets up. In the film, under her fatherﾕs heavy hand, Jo has realized her escape from the farm wasnﾕt real after all.

0:56 · 120 BPM

Eerie and angelic, blending haunting synth textures and bells to create an otherworldly, oddly peaceful mood. In the film, Jo, badly beaten by her father, rests on her bed and retreats into her imagined new home in her imagined city, this time never to return.

3:21 · 50 BPM

Eerie and effortfully sweet, blending rich synth textures and drum machine to create a mood of false grandeur. In the film, we see Joﾕs world as she sees it, one in which everyone is smiling and all the cars and buildings have fresh coats of paint, but one senses that everything is falling apart on the inside.

3:49 · 60 BPM

Haunting and groovy, blending rich synth textures and drum machine to create a mood of cool self-confidence. In this scene Joﾕs brother Kip, a soldier on leave from his service in Iraq, screams at his sister, staring blankly out her bedroom window, hoping in vain to bring her back.

3:10 · 100 BPM

Moody and cool, blending rich synth textures and drum machine creating a feeling of hope. In the film, with his military issue handgun pointed at his father, Kip calmly walks out of the farmhouse with Jo on his arm. Driving away Kip promises Jo heﾕll never leave her alone again.

2:43 · 136 BPM

At turns haunting, twisted, tender, and bombastic, blending real drums, drum machines, rich synth textures, Rhodes electric piano, and harmonica creating an absurd, schizophrenic feel. In this bizarre and emotionally exhausting scene Jo dreams her entire life story, blending the real and the not-real seemingly indiscriminately.

6:53 · 127 BPM

Moody and cool, blending rich synth textures and drum machine to create a mood of cool self-confidence. In the film, Kip, hiding with Jo from their father, is now officially AWOL with his military unit and coolly plots his next move.

1:14 · 120 BPM

Haunting and optimistic, blending rich synth textures and drum machine to create a sense of hope and good vibes. As the film closes, the harmonious start of this piece sets the tone. As the camera pans back, we see Kip and Jo standing together in a freshly cleared acre of remote forest, blueprints in hand for the house theyﾕre to build together.

2:32 · 136 BPM