Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film is an album of music composed and performed by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd for the film Mysterious Skin.[2][3][4] The music was published on a CD inside a digipak containing images from the film.

Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film
Soundtrack album by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd
Released	May 24, 2005
Genre	Ambient
Length	45:01
Label	Commotion
Producer	Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd
Harold Budd chronology
Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' (2005) Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film (2005) Compounds and Elements (2006)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "the soundtrack plays as a piece, with a moody, yet darkly alluring mood prevailing throughout ... should please fans of ambient, post rock experimentation, and smart, well-executed film music."[1] The Austin Chronicle called the music "ethereal," writing that it "subtly enriches the sense of mystery that lies at the movie’s core."[5] Vice called it "both gorgeous and sad."[6]

Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, wrote: "Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie, in their score for the new Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin, do something wholly unexpected: as a horrendous story of child abuse in a Kansas town unfolds, the music sways toward a state of irrational bliss, as if to numb the pain."[7]

Track listing

1. "Neil's Theme" – 2:14
2. "The Memories Returning" – 2:08
3. "Snowfall" – 6:30
4. "Neil's Farewell" – 2:31
5. "Childhood Lost" – 2:38
6. "Halloween" – 3:18
7. "A Silhouette Approaches" – 2:28
8. "Goodbye to Wendy" – 2:46
9. "Brian's Nightmare / The Unknown, Part One" – 4:04
10. "Twilight" – 3:46
11. "The Unknown, Part Two" – 2:11
12. "The Discovery" – 2:27
13. "Loitering" – 3:38
14. "The Writing on the Wall" – 1:50
15. "One True Love" – 2:32

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