Longtime musical collaborators Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are no strangers to film soundtracks. Together, the two scored 2005′s The Proposition and 2007′s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. They now add to buzz already surrounding John Hillcoat’s adaptation of The Road, for which they’re on musical duties.
The novel—which won Cormac McCarthy a Pulitzer Prize in 2007—pretty much makes every other post-apocalypse tale look like a carnival, and early reviews, along with an excellent trailer, suggest the film version will do the same (eat your heart out, No Country for Old Men).
Appropriately, Cave and Ellis have created a soundtrack that matches the film’s ominous aura. “The music was composed as a direct response to the film,” Cave said in a recent press release. “A light, haunting, simple score with a sense of absence and loss at its heart.”
The Road will hit theaters on November 25. Snippits of the soundtrack can be heard at the movie’s site right now.
