Tycho - Hours

I recently watched the film Drive, and, of course the soundtrack was one of those things that was deliberately there to stick out at you and knock you off guard. Not the stuff written by Cliff Martinez, that was a great score that sailed by perfectly, i dont think anyone had any qualms with that. I’m talking about the track A Real Hero by College and Electric Youth. For a long time I couldn’t decide if I really liked the song that much, It was certainly not the sort of track you’d expect to hear at those integral points in the film and to be honest i dont think it fit. Now, the reason it didn’t fit wasnt because the theme of the song was unconventional and atypical to that sort of film…

Listening to Tycho today i realised that his type of music would have been the correct choice in executing the atmosphere that director Nicolas Refn was most likely trying to portray. Maybe i’m totally off with his intentions, prehaps A Real Hero was the perfect track and just what he wanted, but i feel like the track he chose just swung a completely cheesy baseball bat at the entire film when he could have chosen something a little more subtle, synthy, dreamy and emotional without using such a glaringly obvious 80’s pop imitation.

Enter Hours.