Eef Barzelay, the witty and sometimes-too clever ex-singer of disbanded country irony rockers Clem Snide, has composed yet another score to another indie flick.
This time he’s tackling music for “Yellow Handkerchief,” a road movie starring William Hurt, Maria Bello and directed by Israeli-born filmmaker Udayan Prasad (“My Son the Fanatic” and “Opa!“) due later this year.
Barzelay’s first foray into film scoring was the 2007 Sundance indie-comedy, “Rocket Science,” which was so insufferably filled with every “indie” prerequisite ever (stilted, quirky, underachieving, awkward, unrequited) that we literally yelled a lot at the television when we finally rented it and contemplated Xanax as a passive aggressive method of fast forward.
And nothing against Barzelay, aside from trying to be too cute lyrically sometimes, but the honking horn, banging of tin drum and I-can’t-play-accordion, accordion score was like sitting wide awake through dental work (the single was harmless enough though).
Here’s to hoping this next time goes smoother.
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2008. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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