Remember that super group of indie-rock artists we’ve revealed to you over the months, who are working with Karen O on the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s “Where The Wild Things Are” — members of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Jonze’s brother, producer Squeak-E Clean, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Folk Implosion collaborator Imaad Wasif and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dead Weather?
Well, O dubbed the collective, Karen O And The Kids and the soundtrack to the film — which we already noted that Geffen/Interscope was putting out — will be released on September 29, a full 17 days before the film hits theaters.
You can also hear some of the music they made in two different spots: the most recent trailer and a featurette on the making of the film that also screened at ComicCon in July.
The artwork you see here is not for the soundtrack CD itself, but for the album’s first single which is titled, “All Is Love” and will come out next week on August 25.
But the super group of artists gets even bigger. Other musicians involved in creating the soundtrack include Dean Fertita (member of Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Liars’ guitarist Aaron Hemphill, the Bird and the Bee’s Greg Kurstin, Services’ Tristan Bechet, and Gris Gris’s Oscar Michel, as well as a children’s choir who have evidently contributed to a soundtrack that will include songs and soundscapes (which pretty much gels with everything composer Carter Burwell first suggested when he wrote about her work on his website back in early 2008).
Carter Burwell (all of the music to Jonze’s films so far and many Coen Bros. films) is credited with co-composing the score to ‘Wild Things’, but it appears that he and Karen O didn’t actually work together and she composed the music for the soundtrack herself and co-produced it with Tom Biller of the Afternoons.
O described the music she wrote earlier this year in an interview with Nylon. “We wrote music that would be easy for kids to sing along with. The songs have that innocence and spirit with poppy hooks here and there. Simple, emotional, sweet stuff.” She told MTVUK that she became involved in the project because of a “child-like innocence about my music or my persona that [Spike Jonze] always just kind of dialed into. So I guess he thought I should make music for ‘Where the Wild Things Are.’ “
[RollingStone single artwork via P4k]