Listen: Justin Hurwitz's "First Man" (OST)

For Damien Chazelle's First Man, the new biographical drama that's more a deliberate character study of Neil Armstrong than a thrilling space adventure about NASA's attempts to land the first man on moon, Justin Hurwitz turns in an engaging-yet-meditative score, employing a sparse blend of woodblocks, harps, swelling strings and theremin wails to fantastic effect, accompanied by thudding electronics that have the tone and timbre of machinery, clunking and rattling with metallic intensity, giving it an industrial edge. Give it a listen below -