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.