Cinematical has just received the following title track for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' original and haunting film score for The Road. It's simple and chilling -- just as any accompaniment to a post-apocalyptic world should be -- full of violin and piano tunes, some wind instruments and sound loops. The soundtrack is being released digitally today over at Amazon, with further digital retailers tomorrow and a CD release to follow on January 12, 2010.We first alerted you to the score back in March, and then to the duo's Soundtrack Collection in September. As you might have gathered, some of us are big Cave & Ellis fans. And rightly so. They provided an award-winning score for John Hillcoat's earlier feature The Proposition (which Cave also wrote), and also scored The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. And of course, that's besides their work in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which has memorable cinematic ties to Wings of Desire (before Ellis teamed up with Cave).
Too often these days it's easy to get pulled out of movies due to overly imposing and grandoise film scores desperately trying to yank at emotions, rather than just lightly coaxing the right feel for a particular scene, and Cave and Ellis definitely know how to let simplicity reign. Check out the clip and track list after the jump and grab it over here at Amazon.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Road by MuteUSA
1. Home
2. The Road
3. Storytime
4. The Cannibals
5. Water and Ash
6. The Mother
7. The Real Thing
8. Memory
9. The House
10. The Far Road
11. The Church
12. The Journey
13. The Cellar
14. The Bath
15. The Family
16. The Beach
17. The Boy
1. I am a big fan of Cave and Ellis (& the other Bad Seeds) and so I've already heard a few pieces from the soundtrack in the aforementioned collection, White Lunar.
It's just a tad upsetting that the movie was delayed so many times that the soundtrack is now preceding the film.
Posted at 12:09PM on Nov 23rd 2009 by Reuben