While no soundtrack for John Hillcoat’s “The Road” starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee has been released yet, White Lunar, the new, two-disc compilation album of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ soundtrack work did come out this week (September 22) on import.
And yes, there is incredibly haunting and funereal music from “The Proposition” (which Cave also wrote the screenplay for) and the phenomenal “The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward John Ford,” but there is also new music to “The Road,” that doesn’t hit theaters now until November 25 (we saw it during TIFF and thought it was bleak, but beautiful and heartwrenching at times). The score to this one is a bit different than their previous work; more romantic, yet melancholy and some reviews of the film even felt the music was a little too saccharine which, while overstating it a bit, isn’t an entirely invalid comment either.
So we’re not 100% sure, but it appears that White Lunar has six new songs from “The Road,” and hopefully there will be a dedicated soundtrack CD to their entire score when the film gets released later this fall.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – “The Road”
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – “The Boy”
