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I can't answer what my favorite is per se, but two of the most memorable scores I can think of are for Swiss Army Man and Ravenous.

I believe Daniels tapped the band Manchester Orchestra to do the music for Swiss Army Man. For whatever reason, they chose to have Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe sing on the soundtrack and the lyrics are usually just narrating what is happening on screen. case in point. It's a lot of fun.

Equally avant-garde, but substantially more "challenging", shall we say, the score for Ravenous is very striking and idiosyncratic, as befitting the film it's accompanying. Also written by a popular musician, in part at any rate. Michael Nyman, the second composer, said Damon Albarn (of Blur and, later, The Gorillaz) wrote about 60% of the tracks and he composed the remainder. Several of the tracks were performed by people who had never played their assigned instruments before in their lives, to create a deliberately off-putting soundscape. Others are traditional period marching songs befitting the frontier America setting. Some are based around electronic loops and samples. And others are very traditional, pleasant (if ominous) orchestra pieces. It's really a wild listen. Check it out for yourself.