We’re getting ever closer to the much-anticipated release of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book. I didn’t grow up with the book, but I find myself getting more and more excited about the film as the release date nears, and a big part of that, I’ve got to admit, is due to the fact that the soundtrack is being written and performed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman Karen O, along with members of the YYYs and the Raconteurs, among others. That soundtrack is out for sale today, and imeem has the whole thing available for free streaming.
I’m listening to it right now, and so far it certainly seems a perfect meld of the open-spaced freedom of the story with just a touch of the YYYs’ edginess around the corners. Give me a little while with this and a few more times through the trailers, and I’ll be right up at the front of the lines when the film releases on October 16th.
Full soundtrack stream embedded after the jump!
Thanks to Stereogum for the tip.
it’s good.
I’m on my second time through it already; I may, in fact, be listening to this all day.
A nugget from the AICN crowd (massawyrm) which makes me strangely happy even as I fear for how this movie is going to be received:
“As a representation of a young boy’s psyche and the worries that trouble him, it is an achievement. But in the context of being a film outside of the arthouse circuit being marketed as a fun, adventure film? Absolute failure. There’s not a moment of adventure here. Not a moment of fantastic danger. Not an instance in which we feel our hero is in any kind of real jeopardy. Nothing that will bring audiences back again and again. This isn’t WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY or THE IRON GIANT or CORALINE or even WATERSHIP DOWN. This isn’t a transcendent family film that will become deeper and richer as you grow from child to adult. It is THE 400 BLOWS with monsters. It was never meant for families. It was meant for critics.”
Good thing we’re critics, then, huh?
I’m looking forward to it more than ever. Probably won’t get to see it until Sunday, though. :/
Midnight!