Weekly Recommendations – w/e 1st March 2024: Sexpectations, & Siegebreaker

Continuing with our catch-up of weekly recommended scores, here’s a round-up of scores that caught my attention over the week ending, 1st March 2024.

Sexpectations (2023) – John Piscitello (John Piscitello)

Sexpectations (dir. Kevin Good) is a romantic comedy TV show that follows an aspiring romance novelist and her attempts to lose her virginity as research for her novel. The show satires numerous classic Hollywood romantic tropes, and US composer John Piscitello’s approach is a wonderful homage to romantic musical devices from classical music and Golden Age film music. Sweeping romantic strings and dramatic choral passages mix with sultry jazz and jaunty woodwinds creating an album that frequently brings smiles of joy and recognition. The listening experience does suffer a little from the short running times on tracks – 18 tracks for a 20 minute album – but that’s a minor quibble.