Okay, so we love reporting on every tidbit that comes out about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and we previously revealed the soundtrack details, but this little bit of news is too good to pass up. We already knew Broken Social Scene would provide the music for the fictional Crash and the Boys and that Nigel Godrich was providing a score. What we didn’t know is BSS worked with Godrich on the score. BSS’ Brendan Canning dished on the soundtrack to Pitchfork:
Pitchfork: What do the songs you wrote for Crash and the Boys sound like?
Brendan Canning: They’re really short punk rock jams. One tune is four seconds long– it’s in Napalm Death territory. After that one, someone in the movie yells, “Hey, it’s not a race!” The longest tune we recorded for it was 42 seconds. Another one is a little more in D.R.I. territory. We’re all fans of that type of thrashy music– Charles [Spearin] and Ohad [Benchetrit] played in a metal band growing up. I definitely bought Suicidal Tendencies’ first record when it came out.
Pitchfork: How much of the score that you recorded with Nigel Godrich is in the film?
BC: We haven’t seen the final cut yet, but we did about 10 pieces. We spent five days recording in London coming up with ambient, Feel Good Lost-type stuff. It was thrilling working with Nigel since we’re all such big fans of his work with Radiohead and Beck, and even a little Natalie Imbruglia, too. [laughs] He stayed on the bus with us during our last UK tour for a couple days. We’re definitely pals.
This is pretty awesome news. Bringing Nigel Godrich and Broken Social Scene together for ambient music is such a brilliant idea, I don’t know what it hasn’t happened earlier. The SP vs. The World soundtrack comes out August 10 on ABKCO.
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