I don’t know what it is but lately I cannot stop listening to The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Each of the suite’s seven movements are all so different and yet they all capture me in so many different ways. I get swept away by the majesty of Jupiter and lulled into serenity with Venus. I love the famous martial anger of Mars whose ending I swear John Williams took inspiration from when he scored the famous Star Destroyer flyover in A New Hope and Saturn’s opening with its repeating flute always puts me in mind of the vast eerie emptiness of the Nostromo’s hallways at the beginning of Alien.