Sony Masterworks will release the official soundtrack album for Aardman Animations’ feature Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Adam, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, Bad Boys for Life, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, His Dark Materials) and Julian Nott who previously scored the original Wallace & Gromit shorts and the first feature, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Also included is vocal track from the Norbots and an 8-bit version of Nott’s classic theme. The soundtrack will be released digitally next Friday, December 13 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The composers’ title track is already available to stream/download now and can be checked out below. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is directed by Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham and stars Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Diane Morgan, Reece Shearsmith, Muzz Khan, Adjoa Andoh and Lenny Henry. The movie follows Gromit as he springs into action to save his master when Wallace’s high-tech invention goes rogue and he’s framed for a series of suspicious crimes. The animated film will be released in select U.S. theaters on December 18 before premiering on January 3 on Netflix and will debut in the UK on December 25 on BBC One.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (3:11)
2. Good Morning Gromit (1:59)
3. Guilty as Charged (1:57)
4. Neat and Tidy (1:39)
5. Gnome Improvements (2:01)
6. Norbot Recharge Time – Jeremy Earnest (2:40)
7. Reprogrammed for Revenge (2:41)
8. March of the Norbots (1:34)
9. The Gnome Song (1:42)
10. Up to Gnome Good (1:24)
11. The Wallaby Street Mob (2:34)
12. The Zoo (2:56)
13. Rush to the Museum (2:04)
14. The Blue Diamond (2:11)
15. Leaf it to Me (1:45)
16. The Fast and The Furnished (1:50)
17. A Crazed Inventor (2:55)
18. Nun in a Tunnel (2:00)
19. Plant Pot Pummeling (1:43)
20. Turnip for the Books (2:30)
21. Wallace & Gromit Theme (0:33)
22. 8 Bit Cheese (1:17)
Lorne Balfe was previously one of the composers on “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” (alongside Julian Nott) so it makes sense they’d go with him again on this. I think Balfe is at his best when it comes to animated films (and occasionally fantasy), though I do think he perhaps takes on a bit too many projects a year.