Exclusive: Listen to a Chilling Song from The Invisible Man Soundtrack, Benjamin Wallfisch’s “Asylum”

The Invisible Man, a horror-thriller starring Elizabeth Moss as a woman whose abusive yet brilliant husband (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has concocted a way to turn himself invisible to stalk her after his apparent death, hits theaters on Feb. 28. Ahead of the Universal Pictures film’s premiere, Back Lot Music will release The Invisible Man Original Soundtrack, featuring an original score by Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch. The track “Asylum” is shared exclusively with Paste readers today, Feb. 20.

The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, Feb. 21, with a vinyl release available on March 4 via Mondo. The score is considerably moody, which is to be expected from a sinister thriller—however, there is also a distinct beauty to the score due to the mix of string and electronic instruments, both drawing out and quieting the sound when necessary.

“It was about using silence rhythmically,” says Wallfisch in a statement. “When there is music, the gestures and sonic attitude are sometimes so left-field and extreme that you almost don’t trust the score’s absence when it’s not there. As a kind of analogue to the presence of Adrian Griffin [The Invisible Man] in the film.”

The track “Asylum” is a perfect example of Wallfisch’s use of silence. It begins as an intense, swelling string piece that eventually comes to an almost complete silence, then slowly brings in synths that escalate into a sonic mesh of anxiety-inducing sounds.