Unlike here in Romania, he root of American horror is not Dracula. It the plantation. The original site of blood-draining, of bodies used up and discarded, of spirituals wailed into the fields. America is not the theatrical kind of vampire. It is something much cruder and bloodier, a shape-shifting organism that gorges on Black labor, culture, and spirit, leaving the bones to rot in shallow graves.

Cellist and Composer Oliver Coates has collaborated with everyone from Mica Levi to Radiohead. But his sublimely minimal score for Aftersun may be the best work from one of contemporary music’s most accomplished figures.