Following their successful 2025 collaborative album Tragic Magic, ambient luminaries Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have reunited for a new project. The duo has officially announced their score for Threshold, a documentary directed by Lars and Torsten Brinkema that chronicles the life and career of Olympic champion cross-country skier Jessie Diggins. To mark the announcement, the pair has shared three initial tracks from the score: “Cold Open,” “Sick And Tired,” and “Gallivare 10km.”
Threshold offers an intimate look at Diggins’ personal journey, capturing both the high-stakes intensity of her athletic triumphs and the more vulnerable, human moments of her life. The score, which consists of sixteen tracks, was recorded in Los Angeles’ Highland Park and Echo Park neighborhoods.
Reflecting on the creative process, Mary Lattimore noted the shift in approach compared to their previous work. “Fresh off of recording our album Tragic Magic in 2025, we were asked to co-score this documentary about the brilliant cross-country ski champion Jessie Diggins,” she explained. “While Tragic Magic had constraints of instruments we were able to use, including historic, delicate and mysterious ones, along with those constraints, we had total sonic freedom. In the case of Threshold, the sky was the limit with instrumentation and we held an expansive palette, but our music existed within the framework of Jessie’s life and the vision of the directors.”
Holding both projects in our hands, two sides of the same coin, was challenging, mind-expanding and satisfying, in this year of making music as a duo. Jessie’s story has many triumphs, thrilling races and wins, but also quite low points that feel very human and call for musical tenderness. It was a pleasure to work with Julianna, Lars, and Tor to find the right melodies to enhance this great doc about someone so admired.
The full tracklist for the Threshold score is as follows:
01 “Cold Open”
02 “Jessie Childhood”
03 “Following In Dad’s Footsteps”
04 “Peyongchang”
05 “Gold Metal Glory”
06 “Burning The Candle”
07 “Sick And Tired”
08 “Press Zoom”
09 “Ruka Race”
10 “Travel To Gallivare”
11 “Gallivare 10km”
12 “Death Is Imminent”
13 “Xmas”
14 “Tour De Ski”
15 “Connected”
16 “Worthy Of Love”
The Threshold score is scheduled for release on November 20 via Florid Recordings and Blue Pool Recordings.
