Barwick and Lattimore score Threshold for Jessie Diggins

Barwick and Lattimore collaborate on Threshold film score for Jessie Diggins documentary, composing the soundtrack for a feature directed by Lars Brinkema and Torsten Brinkema about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins. The record is the duo’s second collaborative LP, following Tragic Magic, which was released in January this year and was followed by a joint tour.

Three tracks from Threshold — ‘Cold Open’, ‘Sick And Tired’, and ‘Gallivare 10km’ — have been released ahead of the full album. Threshold will be released on 20 November 2026 by Florid Recordings and Blue Pool Recordings.

The artists commented, ‘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.’

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore’s new album Threshold is their second collaborative LP, following Tragic Magic, which was released in January this year. Tragic Magic was followed by a joint tour. While working on Tragic Magic the collaborators encountered constraints of instruments they were able to use, including historic, delicate and mysterious ones. Despite those constraints, that project offered them what they described as total sonic freedom.

For Threshold they said the sky was the limit with instrumentation and they held an expansive palette. They said their music for Threshold existed within the framework of Jessie Diggins’s life and the vision of the film’s directors, Lars and Torsten Brinkema. They described holding both projects in their hands as two sides of the same coin. They characterized the experience as challenging, mind-expanding and satisfying in this year of making music as a duo. The Quietus published the article announcing the collaboration.

Threshold is presented as the film score for a documentary about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins, directed by Lars Brinkema and Torsten Brinkema. The album is the second collaborative LP by Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, following their earlier joint release Tragic Magic, and it was created as a dedicated soundtrack for the film’s subject and the directors’ vision.

Three tracks from Threshold — “Cold Open,” “Sick And Tired,” and “Gallivare 10km” — were released ahead of the full album, and those tracks were issued in advance of the record’s commercial release. The project is explicitly identified as a film-score album rather than a standalone studio record, framing its musical choices within the needs of the documentary’s narrative and subject. The Quietus published the announcement that detailed these aspects of the release.

Threshold is scheduled for release on 20 November 2026 and will be issued by Florid Recordings and Blue Pool Recordings. The artists described the instrumentation for Threshold as expansive and noted that their music existed within the framework of Jessie Diggins’s life and the vision of the film’s directors. They contrasted Threshold with their prior project Tragic Magic, noting different constraints and palettes between the two works and characterizing the year of collaboration as challenging, mind-expanding and satisfying.

Those statements about instrumentation and artistic approach were part of the information released alongside the album announcement and the advance tracks. No further technical details about the score’s instrumentation, track sequencing beyond the named advance tracks, or formats for the 20 November release were provided in the announcement.

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.

The Quietus

They described Tragic Magic as having constraints of instruments they were able to use, including historic, delicate and mysterious ones. They said that, despite those constraints, Tragic Magic provided total sonic freedom. They characterized Threshold as having an expansive instrumentation palette that existed within the framework of Jessie Diggins’s life and the vision of the film’s directors.

The Quietus published the original announcement of the collaboration between Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore and of their album Threshold. The announcement in The Quietus named the artists and the album Threshold as the subject of that original report. The Quietus was the media outlet that published the original announcement of the collaboration and Threshold.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have collaborated on Threshold, presented as the film score for a documentary about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins directed by Lars and Torsten Brinkema. Threshold is the duo’s second collaborative LP following Tragic Magic, and three tracks — “Cold Open”, “Sick And Tired” and “Gallivare 10km” — have been released ahead of the full album. The record is scheduled for release on 20 November 2026 and will be issued by Florid Recordings and Blue Pool Recordings. The artists described Threshold as having an expansive instrumentation palette and said their music existed within the framework of Jessie Diggins’s life and the directors’ vision. The Quietus published the announcement of the collaboration and the album.