Epic Soundtracks

As one of the founding members of 1970s U.K. art-punks the Swell Maps, Epic Soundtracks' musical legacy was firmly in place from the start. And although he was involved in music throughout the 1980s--as the drummer for These Immortal Souls and Crime and the City Solution--it wasn't until the mid '90s that Soundtracks began recording his own solo albums. Miles away from the Maps' inspired cacophony, his three albums were marked by a keen sense of pop songcraft and a melancholic sense of atmosphere. The emotionally troubled artist died in his sleep of unknown causes in 1997 at age 38. His brother, rocker Nikki Sudden, died less than a decade later.