Who Loves the Sun: Original Film Score

Who Loves The Sun marks the second journey into the soundtrack world for Mac McCaughan's non-Superchunk project, Portastatic. Strangely enough, both of these scores have been for Canadian films, the first being 2001's Looking For Leonard. However, unlike his 2001 effort, this time around the output is much more orchestral in nature and sways further away from the guitar-based songs McCaughan usually rips out. Instead, he uses piles of strings, flutes, oboes and pianos to make a purely instrumental soundtrack that sounds much more like, well, a soundtrack. Resembling other scores on Merge released by Stephin Merritt and Eric Bachmann, the songs found here barely ever go over the 2 minute mark; regrettably, this makes it hard to ever really get into them since they are chopped so quickly. This is not to say that a lot of these songs aren't pretty, they just aren't very memorable.