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Right. Alan Bleasdale's GBH is one of the best TV drama series of the last ten years. You've seen it, you like it, so what do you do? Go out and buy the soundtrack? Don't be stupid.
Of course, the attraction here is that the music in question is written by Elvis Costello. Costello has collaborated with Bleasdale before, most notably appearing in No Surrender as a cabaret magician so inept that even his rabbit dies.
However, this is his first full-blown soundtrack, featuring 22 pieces of slow-moving, orchestral music, scored and orchestrated by Richard Harvey, whose previous work has included scores for Anglia TV. The music is gentle, unobtrusive and atmospheric. Ideal for complementing a superb TV programme; not for wildly stimulating home listening.
The main points of interest are the obviously Costello songs — the main theme and the "Pursuit Suite" (the former being on more than nodding terms with "Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4" from Mighty Like A Rose). Otherwise, this is little more than a curiosity.
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