Darren Aronofsky
's second film
Requiem for a Dream
features a score from his
Pi
collaborator, former
Pop Will Eat Itself
vocalist/guitarist
Clint Mansell
. This time,
Mansell
blends his usual electronic/industrial leanings with brooding, evocative performances from
the Kronos Quartet
. As with
,
's compositions play a large part in
, which is an adaptation of
Hubert Selby
's 1978 novel about the harrowing lives of four drug addicts. Impressively,
's score manages to be appropriately dark and disturbing, as well as compulsively listenable. ~ Heather Phares