“Best known for scoring film soundtracks, Craig Armstrong has provided a-list pop acts (U2, Massive Attack, and Spice Girls) with cloying string arrangements. But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like *Moulin Rouge* and *Plunkett and MacLean*. The appropriately titled *As If to Nothing* follows on from his 101-Strings-for-Jaded-Dul”