…Ludwig Göransson is Ryan Coogler‘s go-to composer (Black Panther, Creed), and has also scored for Christopher Nolan, most notably Oppenheimer. In television, his most famous score is The Mandalorian. But Sinners is a different beast, as the film is about music, with some vampires thrown in; the vampires are attracted to the music, which “pierces the veil between life and death.” If Sammie (newcomer Miles Caton) were not so good at playing guitar, it’s possible no one would have died.
The film’s main genre is the blues, but Göransson uses this as a starting point, expanding outward like spikes on a wheel. The key scene, represented by “I Lied to You” on the soundtrack and “Magic What We Do (Surreal Montage)”…