War Machine is a new Netflix film, directed by David Michod and starring Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, and others. Military snares set a sharp cadence beneath the score’s eerie synths and strings, instantly reminiscent of Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave & e Bad Seeds, and the beautiful Hell Or High Water score. “Together we made a score that was both light and dark, propulsive and meditative at the same time. We developed a kind of ‘spiritual electronics’ that captured both the melancholy and the terrible absurdity of the Afghan war,” Cave and Warren Ellis said in a press release.