Vinyl Record
West Dylan Thordson - Split
West Dylan Thordson - Split 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.
Split is the score where West Dylan Thordson first defines his sound for M. Night Shyamalan's psychological branch of the Unbreakable story. The film's tension depends on confinement, fractured identity and the fear that the ordinary room can become predatory, and the music follows that logic closely. Opening, What's Wrong With Barry?, Dr. Fletcher In Philadelphia, Arrival, Meeting the Others, The Beast Is On the Move, Kevin Wendell Crumb, The Standoff and Rejoice form a sequence of cues that feel nervous, close and physically uneasy. Thordson uses cello-based pressure, distorted shapes and hard-edged textures to make the score feel as if it is bending under stress. The album is not designed for comfort; it is built around threat, ambiguity and the slow disclosure of a hidden connection to a larger film mythology.
Split matters because it established Thordson's musical identity within Shyamalan's trilogy before Glass expanded it. The score helped give the film its unsettling texture, using cello and industrial-edged suspense to make character instability audible without overexplaining it.
For collectors, Split is the essential Thordson entry before Glass. It is valuable as a self-contained horror-thriller score and as the point where the later trilogy connection begins to acquire its own musical vocabulary.
Claustrophobic thriller scoring with scraped cello colour, tense drones, brittle pulses, sudden dark swells, minimal melodic comfort and a raw psychological edge.
Recommended for: Fans of psychological horror and thriller soundtracks; Collectors building the Unbreakable trilogy score run; Listeners who like cello-driven suspense textures; West Dylan Thordson followers starting with his Shyamalan work.
When was the original Split score first released? The score album was originally released in 2017, following the film's theatrical release period. What makes the Split score distinctive? Its identity comes from tense cello treatment, distorted textures and a close, claustrophobic approach to suspense. How does this connect to Glass? Split introduces Thordson's musical language for Kevin Wendell Crumb and the trilogy's psychological tension, which Glass later develops further.