Last week, word leaked of all, or most, of the details to Karen O’s work on the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s “Where The Wild Things Are.”
O amassed a super-super indie-rock group (members of the Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bird & The Bee, many more, etc.) to help her compose the music and she dubbed the collective, Karen O And The Kids. Geffen/Interscope is putting out the soundtrack disc on September 29 and the album’s first single, titled “All Is Love”, is set to come out tomorrow, August 25.
However, it’s already out today on the Myspace page for the ‘Wild Things’ soundtrack. It sounds whimsical and jovial, like you’d imagine.
“I didn’t want to make music that was hammering you over the head or go for some kind of push-button emotion,” O said on the Myspace blog. “What I initially wanted to do was close to Cat Stevens [soundtrack] in ‘Harold & Maude,’ really simple, but memorably and seamlessly woven into the movie. Working with all these highly-empathetic musicians over of a couple of years on this soundtrack was a lesson in the power of collaboration.” [Myspace]