Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Bobby Krlic - Almost Holy (2016) Hi-Res

Almost Holy: OST is the suitably gloomy soundtrack to a documentary by Steve Hoover focussed on the strife of Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when “institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure”, and all viewed thru the eyes of its central character, a pastor named Gennadiy Mokhnenko, “who saves street kids, at times by forcible abduction.”

It’s definitely worth checking for Bobby Krill’s parts, which reflect the feeling of the imagery thru a sense of sonorous presence and looming tonal abstraction, rather than the Ross parts which make more plain use of generic conventions to play up to expectations and anticipation.