David Arnold, Casino Royale - 1h 14m 22s

Tracks & Durations

1. African Rundown	6:52
2. Nothing Sinister	1:27
3. Unauthorized Access	1:08
4. Blunt Instrument	2:22
5. CCTV	1:30
6. Solange	0:59
7. Trip Aces	2:06
8. Miami International	12:43
9. I'm The Money	0:27
10. Aston Montenegro	1:03
11. Dinner Jackets	1:52
12. The Tell	3:23
13. Stairwell Fight	4:12
14. Vesper	1:44
15. Bond Loses It All	3:56
16. Dirty Martini	3:49
17. Bond Wins It All	4:32
18. The End Of An Aston Martin	1:30
19. The Bad Die Young	1:18
20. City Of Lovers	3:30
21. The Switch	5:07
22. Fall Of A House In Venice	1:53
23. Death Of Vesper	2:50
24. The Bitch Is Dead	1:05
25. The Name's Bond...James Bond	2:48

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Review

Now in its fifth decade, the James Bond film series has outlived the Cold War concerns that spawned it--not to mention the acting careers of a Sean Connery replacement or three. Indeed, its musical sensibility has often been the cycle's most reliable artistic link across the decades. While the arrival of latest Bond Daniel Craig inspired the producers to forge a long-overdue prequel plot gambit ("How Bond became Bond") for their Casino Royale redux, composer David Arnold's fourth Bond score helps bridge the past while subtly pushing it ever forward. The album's absence of a pop-song title single (though the melody of the Arnold/Chris Cornell-composed "You Know My Name" is interpolated into the underscore) isn't terribly shocking, considering the waning fortunes of recent efforts in the genre. But other traditions continue, with the full-bodied score here subtly infusing the elegant spirit of original Bond maestro John Barry into Arnold's own mix of brooding tension-builders and the dynamic, brassy rhythms of his signature action cues. The latter even gingerly cross over into the synth-charged club milieu of Eric Serra's GoldenEye score, a sensibility that was reviled as sacrilege by Bond aficionados a decade ago but that's since become a staple of mainstream film scoring. Arnold brings it all full circle with the muscular coda "The Name's Bond...," a lovingly authentic, barely revamped workout of the epochal Barry/Monty Norman theme that anchors the series to glories past. --Jerry McCulley

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