….it’s an educated guess at best. In an interview with NME, the former Blur guitarist revealed he’s currently at work on a soundtrack album for a forthcoming Brit “freak thriller” that’s coming out “relatively soon”. Of course, the cheeky bastard declined to name the film so we’re going to start the speculative ball rolling.
Graham Coxon says the album will sound like “Pink Floyd with fangs” and goes on to say that:
“They [film producers] gave me some themes to play with, famous old nursery rhymes and folk songs that I wanted to muck about with. I came up with 13 or 14 tracks, so about 45 minutes of music – it’s a weird, strange kind of album.”
That actually sounds pretty cool. Ever since this news floated online last week we’ve been turning over what the film he could be working on might be and we think Mark Romanek’s forthcoming “Never Let Me Go” is a fairly solid guess.
The film, which is already in the test screening phase, is a futuristic thriller that takes place at an elite English boarding school where a trio of students find out they are actually clones created for the sole purpose of organ donation. ‘Freak thriller’ right? The setting of the film, coupled with its science fiction background seems like its the right fit for fractured, moody nursery rhymes. Moreover, given director Mark Romanek’s extensive music video background, we could see him being more comfortable working with individual songs, rather than a traditional score.
But until we know for sure, this is all just a guessing game. Anyone else have some thoughts (or insider info)?
