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Artist:
Various
Title:
Dead Man’s Shoes OST
Release
Date: 4 October 2004
Label:
Warp Records
Cat
#: WARPCD126
Distributor:
Vital
Website:
http://www.warpfilms.com
This
October sees the release of Dead Man’s Shoes, the first
full-length feature from WarpFilms. A genre-defying film pitching
horror and the supernatural against comedy and social realism,
Dead Man’s Shoes is the brainchild of writer/director
Shane Meadows (24/7, A Room for Romeo Brass) and actor/screenwriter
Paddy Considine (Last Resort, 24 Hour Party People, Room For
Romeo Brass, In America) who collaborated on this semi-improvised,
axe-wielding, revenge thriller.
Set
in a Midlands village, in a community where crime is unchecked
and drugs, intimidation and power games are accepted as the
fabric of daily life, Dead Man’s Shoes explores the decayed
underbelly of contemporary rural Britain. Already selected
for film festival screenings at Edinburgh (World Premiere
British Gala slot), Toronto and Venice (Director’s Fortnight),
Dead Man’s Shoes is poised to become a cult smash, and
follows the BAFTA award winning success of Chris Morris’
debut short for WarpFilms in 2002, My Wrongs #8245-8249 and
117.
As
you would no doubt expect from Warp, the soundtrack is central
to the film. Personally selected by director Shane Meadows,
the music provides counterpoints between the lush great pastures
of the Peak District, and the deranged scenes of bloody retribution.
The twisted folk of (Smog) and The Earlies is interspersed
with the eerie spaghetti western feel of Calexico’s instrumental
tracks and unsettled calm of Aphex Twin’s ‘Nannou
2’, while heartfelt singer/songwriter narrative songs
from Adem, Gravenhurst and Clayhill lend an emotional gravity.
Laurent Garnier’s fantastically fucked-up, rhythmic-drone
centrepiece ‘Forgotten Thoughts’ accompanies the
film’s ‘acid scene’ as the vigilante lead character,
Richard, spikes his nemeses’ tea kettle with a lethal
psychotropic cocktail… carnage ensues. M. Ward’s
cracked and haunting ‘Dead Man’ could not be more
fitting.
Like
the acclaimed Morvern Callar soundtrack (released on Warp
in 2002), the Dead Man’s Shoes soundtrack stands apart
from the film as a thoroughly enjoyable and beautifully sequenced
collection of songs that hang together with unusual resonance.
Dead
Man’s Shoes OST
1.
(Smog) 'Vessel In Vain'
2.
Calexico 'Untitled II'
3.
Calexico 'Untitled III'
4.
Adem 'Statued'
5.
Calexico 'Ritual Road Map'
6.
Laurent Garnier 'Forgotten Thoughts'
7.
The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'
8.
Richard Hawley 'Steel 2'
9.
Clayhill 'Afterlight'
10.
Calexico 'Crooked Road'
11.
Lucky Dragons 'Heartbreaker'
12.
Gravenhurst 'The Diver'
13.
Cul De Sac 'I Remember Nothing More'
14.
P.G. Six 'Fallen Leaves'
15.
ABBC 'Pluis Sans Nuages'
16.
Aphex Twin 'Nannou 2'
17.
M. Ward 'Dead Man'
18.
DM & Jemini 'The Only One
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