Bobby Krlic is an award-winning British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, as well as the man behind The Haxan Cloak. A discovery of hip-hop and electronic music at 16 left its mark on the young Krlic, and he set about creating his own take on folktronica. A university course in sound and visual art opened Krlic's eyes to the possibility of making music in a whole different way. Krlic released his self-titled debut full-length, The Haxan Cloak, in 2011. This was followed by his first live appearances, which coincided with a gradual transition from his usual drone-influenced sound to a more electronic style of production. In 2012, Krlic signed to Tri-Angle Records, and went on to release a 30-minute live composition, The Men Who Parted the Sea to Devour the Water. The release was followed up in 2013 with Excavation, his second-full-length LP, and described by Krlic as being about "the soul's journey after death." In 2015 he earned production credits on the Vulnicura album by Icelandic singer/songwriter Björk and Death Magic, the third record from Californian noise rock band HEALTH. He then began collaborating with fellow producer and Oscar-winning film composer Atticus Ross on the scores for the 2015 movie Blackhat, 2016's Triple 9, and Steve Hoover's 2016 documentary Almost Holy. In 2019, Krlic wrote the original score for the film Midsommar directed by Ari Aster, for which Krlic received the Ivor Novello award for Best Original Score in 2020.