Jon Kaplan

BRIAN TYLER Varèse Sarabande CD Club VSD-01018 37 tracks – 79:30 A group of archaeological students receive a message from their missing professor (Billy Connolly), sent from hundreds of years in the past. Thanks to a millionaire’s (David Thewlis) time machine, they embark on a mission to rescue him.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH Walt Disney (digital) 26 tracks – 48:11 Mark Mothersbaugh delivers one of his most cohesive, texturally sophisticated scores for Pixar’s Hoppers, blending his signature electro-orchestral palette with an unexpectedly strong jazz-inflected harmonic language. A full orchestra, layered with synths, rhythm section and programmed percussion, creates a hybrid sound—at once organic and mechanistic—that neatly mirrors the film’s premise of consciousness inhabiting artificial bodies.

HENRY JACKMAN Lakeshore LKS (digital) 24 tracks – 52:35 In Amazon Prime’s big-budget The Bluff, a woman’s past is unearthed when a band of buccaneers arrives on a remote island. The film, which debuted in March, features a score by Henry Jackman (Strange World; Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), though this is no traditional swashbuckler soundtrack.