Stream Jonny Greenwood’s “House Of Woodcock” From ‘Phantom Thread’ Soundtrack

Given his work lately for Haim and Radiohead, and his terrific talent for marrying music and visuals, it was only natural that we asked Paul Thomas Anderson if he would ever make a full blown musical.

“I’ve always thought of doing a musical, but.. maybe one day. They’re fashionable right now, aren’t they?” he told us in a recent interview. Well, the director’s latest, “Phantom Thread,” may not feature any song and dance numbers, but it’s filled to near overflowing with music by Jonny Greenwood. The Radiohead member has collaborated extensively with Anderson over the past decade and more, on pictures such as “There Will Be Blood,” “The Master,” and “Junun.” And this time around Anderson makes the most of Greenwood’s work, perhaps more than ever before.

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Nearly 90 minutes of the 2 hour and 10 minute movie features Greenwood’s compositions, a fact which astonished the conductor of the soundtrack. “When I told [this to] Robert Ziegler, who conducted the score, he said, ‘That’s not a soundtrack, that’s a musical!’ But I know I’m pretty lucky to work on films like this, where there’s so much scope for developing a score over such a long time,” he told Variety.

Greenwood was brought in very early in the process as “Phantom Thread” was developing, and he shared some of the influences he worked with.

“We talked a lot about ‘50s music, what was popularly heard then as well as what was being written and recorded,” he explained. “Nelson Riddle and Glenn Gould’s Bach recordings were the main references. I was interested in the kind of jazz records that toyed with incorporating big string sections, Ben Webster made some good ones, and focus on what the strings were doing rather than the jazz musicians themselves.”

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You can lose yourself in the soundtrack to “Phantom Thread” when it’s released via Nonesuch digitally on January 12th, with the CD arriving on February 9th, and the LP landing on Record Store Day on April 21st. Get a taste of what’s to come with the lovely “House Of Woodcock.”