The track is from the soundtrack for Good Time – a Safdie Brothers-directed film starring Robert Pattinson
Daniel Lopatin – otherwise known as Oneohtrix Point Never – has released the track Leaving The Park today (19 July). The release is the second single from Good Time, the follow-up to his collaboration with Iggy Pop, entitled The Pure And The Damned.
The soundtrack is for the Safie Brothers-directed film starring Robert Pattinson as protagonist Constantine ‘Connie’ Nikas, who tries to get his incarcerated brother out of prison after a botched bank robbery.
Lopatin’s score won Best Soundtrack at this year’s Cannes Festival, and Leaving The Park is the centrepiece of the album.
“To me the Safdies are doing something really unique and yet drenched in tradition,” Lopatin said on working with the brothers. “I think of Jarmusch, Tarantino, Carax – directors whose love of the history of cinema is too strong to keep out of the filmmaking itself, but remain totally idiosyncratic anyway. We share an affection and reverence for bruised and battered stuff, and I think we both feel this urge to enshrine the history as it is now, not as it was then.”
Josh Safdie said that he “had always imagined Dan’s work, especially his earlier work, as soundtracks to movies that never existed” in a press statement. “From our collaboration on Good Time, and through the twisted dialogue that surrounded it, we have gained a deep friendship and of course a fluorescent extra-terrestrial score.”
Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is slated for release on 11 August via Warp. Listen to the track via the artist’s site and pre-order the album here.
