Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (soundtrack) Sandoval is featured throughout the score. The music was recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, California, conducted by Nick Glennie-Smith, with Whitacre's choir being done at Abbey Road Studios. To make the soundtrack album stand out, Zimmer tried to focus on the Rodrigo y Gabriela tracks, as well as providing remixes that "fit the themes". Seven remixes overall are featured. The soundtrack was released on May 17, 2011, three days before the US release of the film. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (soundtrack) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides critic Mark Kermode gave the film an overwhelmingly negative review on his "5 Live" show, saying "it's not as staggeringly misjudged as the third part, because it is just nothing, it is just a big empty nothing, whereas part three I think was an active atrocity, it's just nothing at all". As with the previous films, the plot was criticized as incoherent and confusing. "The Arizona Republic" critic Bill Goodykoontz rated the film two out of five, stating that "the movie is a series of distractions tossed together in the hopes that they will come together in a coherent story.