A few months ago I watched the trailer for Hanna, a movie that centers around the life of a special girl whose childhood toys were knives and guns, not dolls and toy ovens. Trained from birth to fight and kill, Hanna’s father unleashes her on the world and… well, you’ll have to watch and see for yourself.
The movie itself looked fantastic, but what really struck a chord with me was the incredible music. It wasn’t the booming classical epic orchestral music found in so many movie trailers, but instead a sort of lo-fi pulsing lullaby electronic sound-scape that matched the trailer perfectly. Even more exciting is that The Chemical Brothers created the soundtrack; all of it.
Hanna Soundtrack Samples
The Hanna soundtrack is comprised of 20 tracks, ranging from gentle ambient whistling tunes, to frenetic adrenaline filled action beats. I found some of the tracks rather unusual, but all of them work masterfully in the context of the film. My favorite track of all is escape 700. As the name implies, this song plays during one of the movies escape sequences, and instead of trying to describe it, I suggest you listen to it below.
Hanna OST Track Listing
- Hanna’s theme
- escape 700
- chalice 1
- the devil is in the details
- map sounds / chalice 2
- the forest
- quayside synthesis
- the sandman
- Marissa flashback
- bahnhof rumble
- the devil is in the beats
- car chase (arp worship)
- interrogation / lonesome subway / Grimm’s house
- Hanna vs Marissa
- sun collapse
- special ops
- escape wavefold
- isolated howl
- container park
- Hanna’s theme (vocal version)
The full soundtrack is available for purchase online through the iTunes store. If you haven’t gone to see Hanna yet, you’re doing yourself a real disservice. The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission.
