I have listened to this film score and I must say, Brian Tyler did an impressive job for this movie's soundtrack. It's pretty much on par with (if not better than) his other works in the Marvel films,
Fast & Furious series and even video games! I remember a few years ago when I started playing the video game
Need For Speed: The Run I immediately felt there's something totally different and awesome about it compared to the previous games in the
Need For Speed series, it felt so... theatrical, like I was playing a movie instead of a game! Eventually when I looked up that the music was done by Brian Tyler who usually does film scores, I was shocked and impressed at the same time!
Since then I have been following up on his works and man, I was so happy to know
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was going to be done by him too! People can bash the other elements of the movie all they want, but the film score truly deserve its own respect. I'm looping this OST in my car's iPod right now and listening to it whenever I'm driving, and I'm not even sure when will I get tired of it (if ever)
For those of you who understand the technical part of music, one of the common characteristics of film scores done by Brian Tyler is the usage of A-chord in place of A-minor (assuming the sequence is in C-major), which in layman's term, converts the part of the music that was supposedly "sad/depressive" into something "mystical/magical". Instruments that he frequently used are brass/trumpets (for fanfare-like sequences), slow & low strings (for calmer moments) and high-soaring choir (for climaxes). There's also his signature drum beats that sound like, the drum has to be
really tough to endure the drummer's constant beating/slapping! Ouch!
The upcoming films that he is scoring are
Fast & Furious 7 and
Avengers: Age of Ultron, and I can't wait for those!
