San Junipero

December’s here. Woo. Let’s celebrate the arrival of advent with some soundtrack music from Clint Mansell. San Junipero was the fourth episode from last year’s Black Mirror series, Charlie Brooker’s stories of future shock and technology gone wrong. In San Junipero two women, Yorkie and Kelly, meet in a bar in a beach resort in 1987 and fall in love. The beach resort and bars and entire existence turn out not to be entirely as they same. Ditto the people. I won’t spoil it if you haven’t seen it- get thee to Netflix and watch it. For a Black Mirror episode it had an upbeat ending too.

The episode is peppered with songs from 1987, including a brief snippet of Girlfriend In A Coma and a repeating Heaven Is A Place On Earth. The rest of the soundtrack was by Clint Mansell, formerly of Pop Will Eat Itself. The 10 tracks Clint recorded came out as a stand alone album and work well independently, with washes of synths, pulses of bass, strings, bleeps and static and repeating melodies. This is the closing piece. It’s a long way from Beaver Patrol.

San Junipero (Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead)

Anyone Reprise

A while back I posted a youtube link to Jessica Brown Findlay singing Irma Thomas’ Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) from Charlie Brooker’s excellent TV series Black Mirror (technology and its attendant madness was the overall theme). Jessica’s beautifully sung cover version was the centrepiece of episode 2, 15 Million Merits. A different youtube uploader (Paulosham2) has since put together a cleaned up version– no voices from the show, intro and fade out sorted neatly, very nice job.

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Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)

Anyone

If you’ve been enjoying Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror series on Sunday nights you might want to go over to this youtube page where someone has uploaded actress Jessica Findlay Brown singing on last week’s 15 Million Merits episode. I’d be quick as well, as Channel 4 have shut down other youtube pages with the song on. Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) was originally recorded by Irma Thomas and as such is close to untouchable but Jessica gives it a rather good go.