Sh, it's okay. I'm here.

My guest this week is an unassuming delight, still early in her career but surely destined

for great things of which, well, she's already achieved a fair few.

Alice Lowe is an actor, writer and now director who has appeared

in a host of critically acclaimed TV shows and films including Ben Whitley's sightseers,

which she co-wrote. Her mainstream directorial debut Prevenge is a black comedy about

a pregnant woman who believes she's receiving murderous instructions from her

unborn child.

I'm Edith Bowman and you're listening to Soundtracking,

a weekly podcast in which we celebrate screen music.

On which note, Alice enlisted electronic duo toy drum

to compose the score for Prevenge,

with the pair delivering a suitably unsettling suite

that reflects protagonist Ruth's psychopathic urges. The

The Alice, welcome to soundtrack and I'm excited to talk to you about this because your film Prevenge, the soundscape to it is wonderful and it's a perfect accompaniment to what's going on visually.

What were you trying to achieve with it and how important is the music to you and particularly when it came to this film?

I knew that the soundtrack needed to be quite idiosyncratic because the film is quite idiosyncratic itself and and I felt like I don't want this to be your

typical slasher or horror or thriller you've got to sort of get to know the character and get to like

her and I felt like music was going to be that way in because it's kind of her world it's what she's

hearing it's what she's feeling and in her mind she's not this horrible killer she's

striving to be good you know to do the right thing and she's like a superhero in her

head that she's on this epic journey so I kind of needed the music to have an epic

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