The Year’s Best Music Moments: A Mix of Performances, Videos and Song Snippets That We Just Really Loved
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Best Use of Music in a Film: Mica Levi’s “Lipstick to Void” in Under the Skin‘s Black Room Scenes
Former music video director Jonathan Glazer well knows how music can help articulate his cold, Kubrickian world-view. But he couldn’t have hoped for better than Mica “Micachu” Levi’s first film score, some of the year’s most deeply unsettling music. The strangled string refrain she composed for the film’s most visually arresting sequences achieves the near-impossible. Scarlett Johansson takes her clothes off, and you recoil in horror. — JK