If you’re anybody who’s anyone in the indie film circle nowadays, chances are you’ll likely want to get some sort of complimentary indie-oriented soundtrack. First time director Kyle Patrick Alvarez did exactly that for his debut feature “Easier With Practice,” a small film which showed at various festivals last year and debuts theatrically in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow.
The soundtrack features a generally relaxed and pastoral set of indie rock names, including Grizzly Bear (who also provided music for Sundance premieres “Blue Valentine” and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut “Jack Goes Boating”), The Watson Twins, The Spinto Band, Deer Tick, and Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene. The rest of the artists can be viewed at the film’s website.
The specific tracklist is unknown at this point, but fans of the Watson Twins will note that, according to their blog, their pre-existing “Darlin’ Song” was used. Given this and that the budget of the project was presumably small, we think it’s safe to assume that the film didn’t have any original songs written for it.
“[Music supervisor Maggie Phillips helped] find the right stuff to fit the tone. Some of it is simple trial and error, but I did make a conscious effort to try and get a strong collection of music together for it,” Alvarez said in an interview with Gordon and the Whale.
‘Easier’ centers around Davy Mitchell (“The Hurt Locker’s” Brian Geraghty), an author who goes on a road trip with his brother. Along the way, Mitchell becomes dissatisfied with their trip until he receives a random phone call from a woman named Nicole (relative newcomer Katie Aselton), whom he begins a phone relationship with and eventually plans to meet with in the flesh. According to the IMDB page, the film is rated NC-17 for ” a sequence of explicit sexual dialogue.” In light of the somewhat peculiar premise, perhaps we can expect a saucy phone sex scene?
If you don’t live in New York or LA, you’ll be able to see ‘Easier’ on DVD (assuming it doesn’t pick up wider distribution) on April 6th, according to Amazon. You can watch the trailer below.