The Town (soundtrack)

The Town (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by
Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2010
Recorded2010
GenreFilm score
Length41:52
Label
Producer
Harry Gregson-Williams chronology
Twelve
(2010) 		The Town
(2010) 		Unstoppable
(2010)
David Buckley chronology
From Paris with Love
(2010) 		The Town
(2010) 		Book of Dragons
(2011)

The Town (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score to the 2010 film The Town directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars in the lead role alongside Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper and Slaine. The film score is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley and released through WaterTower Music and Silva Screen Records label on September 14, 2010.

Background

Harry Gregson-Williams composed the film score in his second collaboration with Affleck after Gone Baby Gone (2007), while David Buckley served as the co-composer.[1] Much of the score was written in early-2010, however, by July 2010, with the post-production being incomplete, Gregson-Williams had written around an hour of score and with few of them were excluded to suit the final edit. The final score album consisted of 16 cues with a 41-minute duration.[2][3]

Reception

Filmtracks wrote "The electronic techniques utilized here are beyond the days of their intelligent usefulness, especially in an album presentation, and Gregson-Williams and Buckley fail to adapt the thematic base of the score into these suspense cues with any of the convincing intrigue that a film like this deserves" calling it "a frustratingly underachieving and generic score."[4] William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote "This is music to keep an audience on the edge of its seat, as expressed on a soundtrack album listeners will be able to use to test their woofers."[5] A reviewer from ReadJunk described it "an okay score from Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley but could have been better".[6] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "The treacly score by Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley, on the other hand, tends to distract rather than enhance."[7] Justin Chang of Variety and Lee Marshal of Screen International called it "lenient" and "distracting".[8][9] A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote "the main attraction is the blaring music of those accents."[10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Charlestown"02:18
2."Bank Attack"03:38
3."Doug Reflects"01:53
4."FBI Show & Tell"01:48
5."OxyContin"02:09
6."Healing and Stealing"03:12
7."Nuns with Guns"03:40
8."The Necklace"02:19
9."The Wreath"01:24
10."Cathedral of Boston"02:28
11."Fenway"03:09
12."Who Called 911?"03:07
13."Making the Switch"02:39
14."Sunny Days"02:27
15."Leaving"02:54
16."The Letter"02:47
Total length:41:52

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes:[11]

  • Music composer and producer – David Buckley, Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Music programming – Anthony Lledo, Justin Burnett
  • Orchestrators – Halli Cauthery, Jennifer Hammond, Ladd McIntosh
  • Concertmaster – Endre Granat
  • Music compiler – Slamm Andrews
  • Technical engineer – Costa Kotselas
  • Recording and mixing – Malcolm Luker
  • Mixing assistance – Jamie Luker
  • Mastering – Rick Clark
  • Score editor – Adam Smalley
  • Assistant score editor – Meri Gavin, Scott Johnson
  • Executive producer – David Stoner, Reynold D'Silva
  • Musicians' contractor – Peter Rotter
  • Album coordinator – Pete Compton
  • Score coordinator – Gretchen O'Neal
  • Artwork – Robert Croucher
  • Music business and legal affairs – Jaimie Roberts, Lisa Margolis
  • Executive in charge of music for Warner Bros. Pictures – Carter Armstrong, Paul Broucek
  • Executive in charge of music for WaterTower – Jason Linn
Instruments
  • Bass – Bruce Morgenthaler, Christian Kollgaard, David Parmeter, Drew D. Dembowski, Michael Valerio, Oscar Hidalgo, Nico Carmine Abondolo
  • Cello – Andrew T. Shulman, Antony Cooke, Aarmen Ksajikian, Cecelia Tsan, Christina Soule, Christine Ermacoff, David Speltz, Dennis Karmazyn, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, George Kim Scholes, Paula Hochhalter, Timothy Landauer, Steve Erdody
  • Electric cello – Martin Tillman
  • Electric violin – Hugh Marsh
  • Guitar – Anthony Lledo, Heitor Pereira, Tony Morales
  • Percussion – Brian Kilgore, Marvin B. Gordy III, Satnam Ramgotra, Wade Culbreath
  • Piano – Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Solo violin – Lili Haydn
  • Viola – Alma L. Fernandez, Andrew Duckles, Darrin Mc Cann, David F. Walther, Denyse N. Buffum, Jennie Hansen, Luke A. Maurer, Maria Newman, Marlow Fisher, Matthew Funes, Pamela Jacobsen, Robert Berg, Roland Kato, Shawn Mann, Victoria Miskolczy
  • Viola – Brian Dembow
  • Violin – Alyssa Park, Bruce Dukov, Eun-Mee Ahn, Irina Voloshina, Jacqueline Brand, Josefina Vergara, Katia Popov, Lisa M. Sutton, Nataalie Leggett, Nina Evtuhov, Phillip Levy, Rafael Rishik, Roberto Cani, Roger Wilkie, Sarah Thornblade, Serena Mc Kinney, Shalini Vijayan, Tamara Hatwan, Tereza L. Stanislav, Julie Ann Gigante, Lili Haydn

References

  1. ^ "Gregson-Williams and Buckley scoring The Town". Film Music Reporter. June 22, 2010. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  2. ^ Noyer, Jérémie (July 12, 2010). "Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After". Animated Views. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  3. ^ "The Town (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Apple Music. September 14, 2010. Archived from the original on June 15, 2024. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  4. ^ "The Town (Harry Gregson-Williams/David Buckley)". Filmtracks. September 16, 2010. Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  5. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Review: The Town [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". AllMusic. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
  6. ^ ReadJunk, B. (October 31, 2010). "Harry Gregson-Williams and David Buckley - "The Town"". ReadJunk.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
  7. ^ Rechtshaffen, Michael (October 14, 2010). "The Town — Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 26, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
  8. ^ Chang, Justin (September 9, 2010). "The Town". Variety. Archived from the original on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
  9. ^ Marshall, Lee (September 9, 2010). "The Town". Screen International. Archived from the original on August 3, 2025. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
  10. ^ Scott, A. O. (September 16, 2010). "Bunker Hill to Fenway: A Crook's Freedom Trail (Published 2010)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 7, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
  11. ^ Harry Gregson-Williams; David Buckley. The Town (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Media notes). WaterTower Music and Silva Screen Records.
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