Super 8 (soundtrack)
Super 8 (Music from the Motion Picture) is the score album composed by Michael Giacchino for the 2011 film of the same name directed by J. J. Abrams. The album was released on June 13, 2011 by Varèse Sarabande featuring 33 tracks from Giacchino's orchestral score. The music featured influences of John Williams' score for earlier-Steven Spielberg directorials (Spielberg also served as the film's producer, through Amblin Entertainment) and was recorded in a short span of time. It received critical acclaim for the subtlety, minimalism, nostalgia factor and paying homage to Williams' with being considered as one of the film's best aspects. Giacchino won the Saturn Award for Best Music for his work in the film. Background J. J. Abrams enlisted Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Star Trek (2009) composer Michael Giacchino to score music for Super 8. Giacchino was simultaneously working on Cars 2 (2011) and with the completion of the film's scoring on May 2011, he began working on the film thereafter, although he written 90% of the themes prepared for recording. In an interview with Collider, Giacchino said that the score will have shades of early-Steven Spielberg directorials from the late-1970s and 1980s. The score was recorded