The Last Panthers
Ostensibly the score for a TV crime thriller of the same name, this collection of icy soundscapes underscores Clark’s masterful melding of sounds real and created. Culled from the soundtrack and edited into new pieces, *The Last Panthers* is a chilling journey, from the glacial pulse of “Hiero-Bosch for Khalil” to the guttural synth whine of “Panthers Bass Plock.” Brief pockets of relief stand out—the nostalgic “Serbian Daffodil” and gently unfolding arpeggios of “Open Foe”—but as a brooding, melancholic whole, it hits hard.
Chris Clark, a.k.a. Clark, composed the score for a moody British TV serial called The Last Panthers. Here, he shapes this incidental music into a flowing 48-minute suite that conjures almost as much of a story as the show itself.
Clark's self-titled 2014 album, as well as the EPs surrounding it, found the producer gearing his music more toward the dancefloor than ever before, resulting in some of the most acclaimed work of his career to date.