Yesterday, we gave you the details on the soundtrack score disc to Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” which was composed by everyone’s favorite whimsy pop-composer Jon Brion.
Well, now we have our hands on a first listen of “All Plays Out (Fire Sale Version)” from the Lakeshore Records soundtrack disc which comes out October 21 digitally with a physical release on November 11 (that latter being new info).
While the song is not in the “disturbing/haunting motif’s and lugubrious jazzy torch song” mode that we described yesterday (which is pretty different for Brion), it’s still a good one and more in the bounciful-strings mode we’re all familiar with. We’re pretty sure this song plays out in a scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman goes to visit Samantha Morton in her perpetually burning house… uh yeah, you’ll have to see the movie for that to be (not) explained.
After a few relatively quiet years, Brion returned for two scores this year including one for Will Ferrell’s “Step Brothers.” Though many seem to forget/be unaware that he also wrote the score for the Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn dramedy, “The Break-Up” in 2006.
PS, we’ve been trying to get an interview with him all year and even with the right PR sources no luck, so if you’re a friend and have any insight here, please pass it along that we’d love to talk. We’ve already interviewed him a few times for MTV back in the day.