• The recent years have seen a breed of soulful music from Scandinavian composers such as Atli Örvarsson (Defending Jacob), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl, Joker), Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, Tenet), and, of course, Kyd himself. Ask him about this cultural convergence between the US’ creative arts industry and Scandanavian countries and he feels pride, but he answers simply, “Scandinavia is a pretty dark place; Denmark not as bad as Norway and Sweden which have rougher winters. This is something we learned to embrace early on. I am not afraid of the dark and going dark. There is a certain melancholy I recognise in Scandinavian music, when I hear it, it reminds me of home.”