Balmorhea to Release The Trap
Balmorhea wrote and performed this atmospheric score
for Lena Headey’s 2023 feature-length directorial debut
The Trap comes out as a digital album on 29 August 2025
“We are grateful to Lena for trusting us on this beautiful film and are honored by
the collaboration. We are so excited for Balmorhea listeners to hear this music and
hopefully be touched by it in some way – equally as we were in its creation.”
Rob Lowe & Michael A. Muller
Texas-based duo Balmorhea (Rob Lowe and Michael A. Muller) present their latest Deutsche Grammophon album – the original soundtrack they composed and recorded for The Trap, written and directed by actress Lena Headey (Game of Thrones). Based on Headey’s BAFTA-nominated short of the same name, and starring Michelle Fairley and James Nelson-Joyce, The Trap was premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2023. Balmorhea’s soundtrack album, made at Estuary Recording in Austin, comes out digitally on 29 August 2025. The title track will be available for streaming/download on 1 August, followed by “I Thought I Wanted You” on 15 August.
The Trap is a psychological drama about a woman whose solitary life is disturbed by her meeting with a troubled young man. Balmorhea’s evocative score enhances the film’s sense of isolation, mystery and unease. “The music is very honest and intimate; gravitating mostly around piano and vibraphone with atmospheric guitars and analog synthesizers completing the sonic image,” say Lowe and Muller.
The duo were able to start work unusually early in the film-making process. “The first session actually took place in response to the script alone; before the shoot had even taken place,” they explain. “This allowed the musical ideas to develop purely in response to the characters and concepts in the script rather than reacting directly to the picture. We were then able to mold the themes and fit them with the beautiful images as the edit took shape. For us, this is the ideal way to work.”
