Jonny Greenwood releases “House of Woodcock” from his Phantom Thread score

Nonesuch has announced Jonny Greenwood's score for Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and put out its first track, “House of Woodcock”, on 21 December. The track is named after the dressmaking house of the film's lead, Reynolds Woodcock, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The film opens in selected US cinemas on Christmas Day.

A different piece, the title theme, has been out since 26 October, three days after the trailer gave the first taste of the music. Greenwood posted it on Twitter as sheet music, four images of a piano part with a string line above it, so anyone with a pianist and a string player could play it before the film reached a cinema.

The album holds 18 pieces, four of them numbered parts of “Phantom Thread”. It is out as a download on 12 January, with the CD on 9 February and the vinyl on Record Store Day, 21 April. Nonesuch says the music is heard more in this film than in any of Greenwood's earlier scores.

The label put out all three he wrote for Anderson before this one, There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012) and Inherent Vice (2014). Anderson also directed the videos for “Daydreaming”, “Present Tense” and “The Numbers” from A Moon Shaped Pool.

The new score has already been nominated for a Golden Globe and named best score by the film critics' associations of Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago.

Phantom Thread Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

House of Woodcock from the Phantom Thread soundtrack, released 21 December 2017· Nonesuch Recordswatch on youtube →