The Boston Globe's Ty Burr calls Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood "a movie music breakthrough" and, breaking the mold of the typical film score, "a character in its own right."

Over the course of the soundtrack, the music works its way from "eerie" to the sound of "a prodigious industrial noise," says Burr, as it mirrors and foretells the action on screen. And, he writes, "there's beauty here as well," with one track in particular, "Prospector's Arrive," creating "a gorgeously meditative mood through which Ives-esque piano chords float like parlor music through an open window."

The power of the soundtrack remains beyond the duration of the film. "Like everything else about Paul Thomas Anderson's movie," Burr explains, "Greenwood's score plants seeds that flower long after the story takes place."

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