The Road – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis LP Vinyl Record (Smoke Grey Coloured Vinyl)

The Road – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis LP Vinyl Record (Smoke Grey Coloured Vinyl)

The 2009 film “The Road,” directed by John Hillcoat, features a brilliant soundtrack composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. This big screen adaptation of the bestselling, pulitzer prize-winning novel “The Road” by Cormac Mccarthy sees academy award-nominee Viggo Mortensen leading an all-star cast. An epic post-apocalyptic tale of survival of a father and his young son journeying across a barren America destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm, “The Road” boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of – a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love. 

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have created an evocative score featuring violin and piano with beautiful fleeting melodies and eerie sound loops filled with terror and suspense. the movie is about the loss of things, the absence of things, the lack of things. the lack of the wife / mother is present in every frame of the film. The delicate edifice of the film holds the ache of her absence, tenderly and by the tips of the fingers. The music was composed as a direct response to the film. a light, haunting, simple score with a sense of absence and loss at its heart.

Pressed on Smoke Grey Vinyl

TRACKLISTING

Side A:

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