Back Lot Music and Quartet Records will release the official soundtrack album for the fantasy drama A Monster Calls. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Fernando Velazquez (The Impossible, Crimson Peak, The Orphanage, Mama, Hercules, Devil). Also included is the original song Tear Up This Town by Keane. The soundtrack will be released overseas on September 26, 2016 by Quartet Records. Back Lot Music will release the album in the U.S. on December 9. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD and click here to listen to audio samples. A Monster Calls is directed by J.A. Bayona and stars Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson and Sigourney Weaver. The movie is based on Patrick Ness’ fantasy novel of the same title and follows a 12-year-old boy who attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss, and faith. The drama just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and will be released in several international markets next month before arriving in U.S. theaters on December 23, 2016. Visit the official movie website to learn more about the Focus Features release.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Tear Up This Town – KEANE (3:13)
2. Conor Wakes Up / Main Title (4:11)
3. Drawing (1:22)
4. The Monster Wakes Up (3:22)
5. Crisis (1:01)
6. The Second Encounter (2:13)
7. The First Tale (7:30)
8. The School (3:21)
9. Home Alone / Dad Arrives (2:48)
10. Grandma´s Clock / The Second Tale (8:13)
11. Break Things (1:03)
12. A World Destroyed (1:05)
13. Big Dreams (1:37)
14. A New Hope / Dad Leaves (2:30)
15. Montage (4:37)
16. The Third Tale (2:43)
17. I Wish I Had a Hundred Years (2:11)
18. The Truth (5:02)
19. End Credits (5:09)
20. Montage (Voice: Felicity Jones) (4:37)
21. Tear Up This Town (Film Version) – KEANE (3:09)
A very very touching movie that helps to provide words and context for a unique and life changing event that happens to many thousands of children who have overwhelming difficulty dealing with their struggle of losing a parent or loving foster parent or substitute parent to a disease that is long and tough to endure.
The complexity of emotion within this story was presented with all of the tenderness, harshness, and genuine confusion that swirls throughout a child’s experience when a parent dies. Yet . . . There is love; the saving grace for those fortunate enough to have a family or family member to understand and to comfort.