Thordson, West Dylan Split LP Vinyl

Split, a terrifying, breakneck thriller, centers on Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man with dissociative identity disorder whose more sinister personalities (collectively known as The Horde) kidnap three teenage girls. The plan is to feed the "impure" girls to another of Crumb's personalities, a superhuman creature known as The Beast. The final girl, Casey Cooke (Anya Taylor-Joy) is spared because The Beast sees scars covering Casey's body, markers of child-hood abuse. Because Casey, unlike the other girls, has suffered, her heart is pure. "Rejoice," The Beast tells her. "The broken are the more evolved." The Split score, by West Dylan Thordson, became the first collaboration between Shyamalan and the composer. Sonic, sinister and foreboding, the music was unlike any recorded for a film before. "I started by recording several loose takes of some simple harmonic bowing ideas with a cellist and violinist," Thordson said. "The intention was to heavily modulate the captured sounds. While playing around with an idea in the past, I'd accidentally captured something like this and wanted to explore it more. The resulting sound was extremely chaotic, unpredictable, and scary. It felt haunted and seemed to capture the otherworldly, tortured, animalistic quality I was looking for. I wanted it to feel like "Jaws," foreshadowing the existence of this malevolent being."

1. Opening 2. What's Wrong with Barry? 3. Dr. Fletcher in Philadelphia 4. A Way Out 5. Dr. Fletcher and the World 6. What Are You Up to Dennis 7. Casey Tells the Truth 8. Somebody Save Us 9. Last Rites 10. I Know You Want to Tell Me Something 11. There Are Things That Are Hard to Believe 12. I'm Really Sad You Feel This Way 13. Arrival 14. Meeting the Others 15. The Beast Is on the Move 16. Dr. Fletcher's Death 17. Casey Meets the Beast 18. Kevin Wendell Crumb 19. The Standoff 20. The Rise of the Beast 21. Rejoice 22. The Beast (Bonus Track)