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Preview M83’s ‘Oblivion’ Score With Astronomical ‘StarWaves’

M83 Oblivion Tom Cruise StarWaves Score Anthony Gonzales

As reported last summer, M83 main brain Anthony Gonzales has teamed up with Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy collaborator Joseph Trapanese to score Oblivion, the forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster starring Tom Cruise. That’s a lot of names (including one that could/should be a Far Eastern hip-hop microgenre), so let’s simplify: Be prepared to hear massive electronic-orchestral space-swells while Jerry Maguire runs around zapping things in a silver jumpsuit. What’s not to like about that?

As Rolling Stone reports, the soundtrack to the April 19 film will also include a proper new M83 song featuring vocals from Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør, not to mention the track, which you can stream below. That one is quite perfectly called “StarWaves” and it’s epic — cinematic and slow-building and overflowing with emotional oomph, just as you’d expect from a man who keeps his Battlestar Galactica DVD set next to his copy of Ash Ra Tempel’s Schwingungen.

And don’t miss SPIN’s meticulous list 40 Soundtracks That Changed Alternative Music.