Frank (soundtrack)

Frank (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2014 film Frank directed by Lenny Abrahamson. The album consists of original songs composed by Stephen Rennicks and performed by Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Fassbender and his fictional band Soronprfbs. Besides singing, Gleeson further composed and written few numbers which are bit songs compiled into individual songs. The lyrics for the songs were written by Abrahamson, Jon Ronson and Rennicks.

Development
Frank is Rennicks' second collaboration with Abrahamson after What Richard Did (2012). Rennicks was involved during the film's pre-production, where besides composing, he further served as the vocal coach to the principal characters. He wrote 70 musical pieces, combining both songs and incidental underscore. Most of the songs were performed live by the cast. Regarding the music, Abrahamson described it as "eclectic, strange, deliberately hard to pin down because we wanted Frank's character to be permanently exploring musical possibilities."

Reception
Henry Barnes of The Guardian described the music as "spiky, abrasive and extremely hard to predict". John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal opined that Rennicks' music "turns into a brilliantly inaccessible amalgam of Sun Ra, [Frank] Zappa and John Cage". Donald Clarke of The Irish Times wrote "Stephen Rennicks's music is quite brilliant: odder yet less mannered than most of the Brooklyn-loft sub-folk baloney".