The 'Man from U.N.C.L.E.' score required some really crazy instruments

The music of Guy Richie's Man from U.N.C.L.E. manages to be both reminiscent of the spy music from the '60s, but also have some yelling, a cimbalom and, you know, a Hungarian milk churn.

Composer Daniel Pemberton, speaking to Paste BN on the phone, said that achieving the perfect throwback-yet-modern sound required recording on old tape machines and using "every piece of equipment we could commandeer" in the famed Abbey Road recording studio. That included "boombans, a Hungarian milk churn – anything we could find," said Pemberton.

Here's that milk churn

And the cimbalom

Harpsichords

Plenty of bass flute

LOTS of percussion

Including triangles

And boombans

And there's an organ

Pemberton also sent his sound into the echo chamber in Abbey Road to record the reverberations of the music and to make it sound "really authentically '60s," he said.

Can you hear all that in the music?!

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