Music
‘Godzilla’ Soundtrack Coming To Vinyl
Music On Vinyl has announced that they will be releasing the soundtrack to this year’s Godzilla as a 2xLP 180-gram black vinyl (with limited copies coming in blood red). The soundtrack, composed by Alexandre Desplat, will be released June 10th and includes a 60x60cm poster. More information on the release can be found here.
Desplat describes the soundtrack for Godzilla as “…non-stop fortissimo, with lots of brass, Japanese drums, and electric violin.”
Below is a video that goes behind the music of the film as well as the track list of the soundtrack (WARNING: some of the track titles are SUPER spoiler-y, so be warned!).
SIDE A
1. GODZILLA!
2. INSIDE THE MINES
3. THE POWER PLANT
4. TO Q ZONE
5. BACK TO JANJIRA
SIDE B
1. MUTO HATCH
2. IN THE JUNGLE
3. THE WAVE
4. AIRPORT ATTACK
5. MISSING SPORE
SIDE C
1. VEGAS AFTERMATH
2. FORD RESCUED
3. FOLLOWING GODZILLA
4. GOLDEN GATE CHAOS
5. LET THEM FIGHT
SIDE D
1. ENTERING THE NEST
2. TWO AGAINST ONE
3. LAST SHOT
4. GODZILLA’S VICTORY
5. BACK TO THE OCEAN
Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.
To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.
This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”
“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”
Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”
It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”
Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.