Fontaines D.C.‘s Grian Chatten has released the haunting track ‘Puppet’ as the ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man‘ movie soundtrack is officially announced.
The hit TV series will soon return to screens with its movie sequel, scheduled to arrive in select cinemas on March 6, and then on Netflix on March 20. Read everything we know so far about the movie here.
Now, the soundtrack for the movie has officially been announced by Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten’s haunting song ‘Puppet’, penned especially for the film. Long-time Peaky Blinders composers Antony Genn and Martin Slattery will score the movie.
Speaking about ‘Puppet’, Chatten said: “As I was working with Ant and Martin on writing these tracks, I had the joy of watching and rewatching the scenes, and different things would reveal themselves to me each time. It’s an interesting thing to not spoil or over narrate a scene and to allow the pictures to speak for themselves. It was a bit of a balancing act.”
The soundtrack includes 36 tracks total, with five new songs recorded especially for the movie. Amy Taylor of Amyl & the Sniffers and Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, and Tom Coll from Fontaines D.C. will all contribute songs to the soundtrack, which will drop March 6.
Nick Cave has also recorded a new version of his song ‘Right Hand Man’ for the soundtrack, while there will be two “transformative” Massive Attack covers handled by Chatten and Irish-Cornish band Girl In The Year Above. Chatten will also collaborating with Irish doom-folk group Lankum on their song ‘Hunting The Wren’.
The final season of Peaky Blinders ended with head honcho Tommy Shelby riding off into the sunset after finding out his terminal brain tumour was actually the result of a malicious false diagnosis orchestrated by one of his many enemies.
A synopsis for the Peaky Blinders film has been released, teasing: “Synopsis: Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to
face his most destructive reckoning yet.
“With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…
Meanwhile, Cillian Murphy has expressed his love for Fontaines D.C. before, being spotted attending their intimate Camden show for their 2024 album ‘Romance’.
The album received five stars from NME when it dropped, with NME writing: “Much of [the album’s] power, therefore, comes from the way the discomfiting mood is offset by the lusciousness of the melodies. “Ah, it makes sense when you understand / The misery made me another marked man,” Chatten sings towards the end of closer ‘Favourite’, a celebration of the past and all its learnings. These final, perfectly-chosen words will only take on a life of their own and reverberate onwards.”
Elsewhere, listen to the soulful new Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten and Kae Tempest collab ‘Flags’ from ‘Help(2)’.
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