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Lis­ten to Nick Cave & War­ren Ellis’ Wind Riv­er soundtrack

31 Aug 2017

Words by Isobel Raphael

Two people, a man and a woman, wearing warm winter clothing and standing in a snowy forest.
Two people, a man and a woman, wearing warm winter clothing and standing in a snowy forest.
There’s a famil­iar melan­choly tone to the pair’s score for Tay­lor Sheridan’s mys­tery thriller.

In their most recent sound­track col­lab­o­ra­tion, Nick Cave and War­ren Ellis con­jure the wild, des­o­late Amer­i­can land­scape of Tay­lor Sheridan’s new film Wind Riv­er, which hits cin­e­mas on Fri­day 8 September.

This album has a lin­ger­ing empti­ness and cycli­cal nature, with each track char­ac­terised by the melod­ic, melan­choly tones so often asso­ci­at­ed with Cave’s music. Mem­o­ries of his band’s 2016 record ​‘Skele­ton Tree’ (pro­duced by Ellis) are evoked here, as Cave con­tin­ues to mourn the trag­ic loss of his son.

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Cave and Ellis have received wide acclaim for their sound­tracks to The Assas­si­na­tion of Jesse James by the Cow­ard Robert Ford, The Road, Law­less and Hell or High Water, also writ­ten by Sheridan.

Wind Riv­er, which stars Eliz­a­beth Olsen and Jere­my Ren­ner, sees an FBI agent and a local vet­er­an inves­ti­gate the mur­der of a Native Amer­i­can. Lis­ten to the stun­ning orig­i­nal score below…

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