A slide guitar bends through reverb like humidity made audible. Olivier Deriviere's score for South of Midnight is genuinely wild, recorded at Abbey Road with the London Contemporary Orchestra but rooted in Nashville blues, gospel, and bayou folk.
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"Two-Toed Tom" builds this grimy swamp groove with distorted guitar and handclaps that feels like a Southern Gothic boss intro. The Rougarou fight music layers frantic strings over drum patterns pulled straight from second-line parades.
And then "Hazel's Story" opens up into something orchestral and heartbreaking. The whole thing works like a Tim Burton musical filtered through Mississippi Delta dirt. If Southern folklore and adaptive music design are your thing, this soundtrack is doing something nobody else is attempting.