Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Nonesuch releases Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated composer Jonny Greenwood’s score to the new action comedy film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another. The album features eighteen new compositions performed by Greenwood - on piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and ondes Martenot - joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Hugh Brunt, among others. 

Released via Warner Bros. Pictures in the UK on September 26, One Battle After Another stars Academy Award and BAFTA winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. In the film, washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Penn) resurfaces after sixteen years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

One Battle After Another is Greenwood’s sixth Nonesuch-released Paul Thomas Anderson film score. Previous recordings include soundtracks to Phantom Thread, Junun, Inherent Vice, The Master, and There Will Be Blood. Nonesuch also released his collaboration with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia, his score to Tran Anh Hung’s film Norwegian Wood, and his performance of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint.

Jonny Greenwood is best known for being the lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in the band Radiohead and more recently in The Smile. Radiohead have had phenomenal critical acclaim and huge popularity throughout their thirty-year career, earning multi-platinum record sales along the way, and the signs are that The Smile too are destined for great success. But Greenwood's musical passions extend far beyond “rock” music. He has an extensive back catalogue of classical pieces, film soundtracks, and traditional middle eastern folk music.