Rob

Robin Coudert, the multifaceted French artist recognized by indie pop listeners and film enthusiasts simply as Rob, has built a career as a singer, songwriter, producer, and scorer of both cinematic and televised projects. His arrangements span refined chamber pop, sweeping symphonic rock, moody electropop textures, and intimate acoustic material, all of which surfaced on his first solo outing in 2001. From his initial short-film assignment in 2005 onward, his scoring credits have ranged across French policiers, the 2017 American horror feature Amityville: The Awakening, and the 2018 series Troy: Fall of a City, set in ancient Greece.

Coudert entered the world in Caen, Normandy, in 1978 and took up piano during childhood before enrolling at Paris’s École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Parlophone issued his ambitious debut album, Don’t Kill—steeped in 1960s pop—during April 2001; roughly eighteen months later he returned with Satyred Love. For several subsequent years he concentrated chiefly on production duties, though he made his scoring bow with the 2005 short Pink Cowboy Boots and issued the six-volume instrumental series Dodécalogue across 2009 and 2010.

By 2010 Coudert had begun scoring documentaries and crossed into feature work with Belle Épine (Dear Prudence). A succession of further soundtracks followed, among them the 2012 thriller Maniac, the 2013 romance Grand Central, and the 2014 fantasy-horror film Horns. In 2015 he became principal composer for the espionage drama Le Bureau des Légendes; two years later he supplied music for the French science-fiction fantasy Seuls (Alone) and the American horror picture Amityville: The Awakening (also known as Amityville 9). Among continuing screen assignments, he created the score for the 2018 BBC/Netflix series Troy: Fall of a City, issued that March by Sony Classical.