- “Garland follows up Ex Machina with a return to the sci-fi genre with an exciting, beautiful, and thought-provoking adaptation of VanderMeer’s novel in Annihilation.”- Screenrant
- “Garland also does a subtle thing by having the music early on in the movie be basic folky guitar, but the further we get to the cosmic truth, the more of Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow’s pulsing, unearthly synth comes in. As Portman and company traverse closer and closer to the truth, the music is telling us it’s not grounded in what we know.”-Nerdist
- “Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury’s score mutates from acoustic guitar plucks to an electronic-infused acid trip to reflect the ever-evolving journey into the peculiar.” -The Film Stage
- “Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow’s score ranges from delicate acoustic guitars to dizzying electronic dissonance, just another way that Annihilation keeps us off-balance.” -Screen Daily
- “..so does the melodically screeching, hauntingly otherworldly music score by composers Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury (2017’s “Free Fire”). The sound design, full of deviously ethereal and ingeniously subliminal cues, is one of the most impressive in recent memory.” -The Fright Files
- “Featuring a hypnotic score courtesy of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury that complements the film’s unearthly temperature, mood is crucial to the movie which is at times, freakish, disturbing and outright terrifying”. -The Playlist
- “They use odd sound effects, followed by guitar melodies to alternately creep; then lull before pivotal scenes. It’s a winning combination that delivers some first rate scares.” -Movieweb
- “..soundtrack that is atmospheric, haunting, and hypnotizing.”-Dread Central
- “..the music and visuals seek to replicate that titular annihilation; you feel pushed up against that wall along with Lena.” -Vulture
- “..a truly brilliant score by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury that sounds like melody being refracted through a prism, much as the Shimmer refracts DNA in the film. It’s at once beautiful and hostile, moving and terrifying, familiar and alienating, and it feels as if we’re watching something on screen that we have truly never seen before.” -From The Front Row