Music from Love & Mercy
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| Film score / soundtrack album by Atticus Ross and various artists | ||||
| Released | August 14, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 1960s–2010s | |||
| Genre | Ambient,mashup | |||
| Length | 38:29 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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Music from Love & Mercy is the soundtrack album to Bill Pohlad's film of the same name about the Beach Boys' songwriter-musician-producer and co-founder Brian Wilson. The album was released by Capitol Records on August 14, 2015. Selections from Atticus Ross's original film score were included in addition to song performances featured in the film. The closing track, "One Kind of Love", was written by Wilson specially for the film.
Pohlad has spoken that he envisioned the original score as a representation of Wilson's auditory hallucinations, which manifest to Wilson as complex sounds and disembodied voices. The resultant score was composed substantially from mashed up samples of Beach Boys songs, taking inspiration from the Beatles' "Revolution 9" (1968) and Danger Mouse's The Grey Album (2004).
Of Brian Wilson's music being incorporated in Love & Mercy, director Bill Pohlad initially clarified: "We're not thinking about this as the hit parade—that would be the biopic thing." English composer Atticus Ross was commissioned for an original score. Ross, who is selective about the films he works on, says he agreed to Love & Mercy because "I liked him [Pohlad] from the moment of meeting him. He’s a guy with vision and that’s what, as a musician, you need from the director. His company was built on making the kind of films that I would love to be working on." He added that he considers music films to have reached "a level of utter [garbage]," he says, "So I put off reading [the script], assuming those things, but then I did read it and I thought it was a brilliant script."
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