Vinyl Record
West Dylan Thordson - Glass
West Dylan Thordson - Glass on 2LP vinyl. A 2020 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2020
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2020 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Glass is West Dylan Thordson returning to M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable universe with a score that refuses the obvious superhero route. The film brings together David Dunn, Elijah Price and Kevin Wendell Crumb, but Thordson's music keeps the focus on instability, memory and psychological pressure rather than triumph. Cues such as Physicks, Brick Factory, Pink Room, Cycles, Escape, David & Elijah, Belief, Kevin & Casey and Origin Story move through low strings, tense pulses, dark tonal clusters and sudden spaces where the sound seems to watch the characters as much as accompany them. The score also threads in echoes of earlier musical material from the trilogy, making the album feel like a final room where identities, themes and wounds return in altered form. On vinyl, its power is mood: ominous, patient and shaped by dread rather than spectacle.
Glass matters because it completes Thordson's musical role in the latter part of Shyamalan's trilogy and shows how a comic-book-adjacent story can be scored as psychological chamber suspense. It builds from Split while carrying the trilogy toward a darker, more reflective endpoint.
For soundtrack collectors, Glass is the companion to Split and the closing Thordson chapter of the trilogy. The reason to own it is not just the film connection, but the way the score treats franchise continuity as atmosphere, using tension and memory instead of heroic release.
Dark psychological film score with low string pressure, uneasy pulses, sparse piano-like space, brooding electronics, suspended dread and restrained thematic callbacks.
Recommended for: Collectors of M. Night Shyamalan soundtrack releases; Fans of West Dylan Thordson's tense film scoring; Listeners drawn to dark psychological scores; Soundtrack buyers pairing Glass with Split.
What film is this score from? It is the original motion picture score for Glass, the 2019 film that concludes the Unbreakable trilogy. How does Glass relate musically to Split? Thordson continues the tense psychological language he developed for Split while adapting it to the trilogy's broader final confrontation. Is this a traditional superhero score? No. The music is darker and more inward, emphasizing dread, fractured identity and suspense rather than large heroic themes.