> What a wonderful write up. Exhaustively written and researched, yet never a wasted word. I aspire to be as verbose as this without being repetitive or dull.

You're too kind. Meanwhile I'm over here kicking myself that I let it get over 3,000 words. I blame the American Tail story from an interview about another score that I only heard last week, back when I thought this post was locked.

> And as a massive Powell fanboy, this score fucking slaps, and it slaps HARD. Take the three HTTYD scores out of the equation, and this one is his best score of his career (followed closely by Pan and Call of the Wild.)

I am slightly more partial to HTTYD 2, only in that it's my #9 score of all time and this is my #10.

Call of the Wild has really benefited from a few years of retrospective reevaluation - or maybe just from me skiing while listening to it quite a bit hahaha. Tale of the Sleeping Giants has climbed up the all time rankings thanks to the latter as well. Though neither can hold a candle to putting on Escape From Piz Gloria while blazing downhill.

Slaps is a marvelous word for praise.