Description:	CD on Drag City
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Soundtracks
	Label:	Drag City
	Price:	£11.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Phil on 17 April 2008.

OK, album of the week goes to a belting soundtrack by J Spaceman And the Sun City Girls. The 1st time I heard his I was sucked into it's fat rounded movie flavoured bosom. It's the soundtrack to a new Harmony Korine film 'Mr. Lonely' which I'm sure will be well disturbing. Anyone seen Gummo? That scared the living shit out of me, that film.... Here we have a haunting album with occasional vocals which drifts fom genre to genre yet it's really together and listenable. It's held in place by a real cinematic glue which screams soundtrack all over the shop. You can hear the Sun City Girls influences with some eerie ethnic sounding pipes or something. I don't know exactly what sort of pipe but it's not one you'd fill with St Bruno. It makes Brian feel all primal listening to this so I'm hoping he can keep it in his pants. I might have to make this a short one (in his honour...). It's bursting with melody and the track called 'Spook' gets me every time. It's one of the most beautiful eerie pieces of music I've hard in ages. Eerie again yes but if there's one word that sums up this album it's eerie. J Spaceman's contribution seems notable as well as there's a weird pysch vibe in it as well. Dark and light, beautiful and ugly... I could keep on with the contrasts all day... salty and sweet, black and white, apples and pears....Wonderful stuff!!

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What their label says...

When Harmony Korine started the production for his film MISTER LONELY back in 2006, he asked two of his favorite artists to send him music to accompany the images and scenes he was putting together. They were busy, so fuck ‘em, they get no ink here — but both Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls were actually his favorites anyway. Some of the sounds these two formidable musicals acts made comprise the all-new soundtrack album, MISTER LONELY – MUSIC FROM A FILM BY HARMONY KORINE. Korine’s previous films have found their truths in unblinking realities cross-cut with surreal images, exposing an emotional core that remains elusive after the movie is over — ennui, delight, disgust, celebration…soft-core snuff porn? MISTER LONELY… subtly heightens all these effects with a narrative involving celebrity impersonators searching for a place where they just can be themselves and nuns who have discovered a new way to fly. The soundtrack for MISTER LONELY is deceptively minimal — a guitar or piano line that blinks past repetition and blushes into something grander; a motif reappearing under new auspices; link pieces that become spotlight moments, densely worked-out, stars in their own right. Classic soundtrack sounds are modern and nostalgic, which may make the progressive tilt of MISTER LONELY…2008’s #1 dark-horse chart-topper! Working independently and never collaborating (would you believe in studios right next door to each other? How about in same studio during different hours of the day?), Jason Spaceman and Sun City Girls employ an instrumental approach for the sounds here, with one or two chanted exceptions. Their music conspires in an exquisite corpse-like fashion — without knowing what the other was doing, they’ve each brought half a body to the film, supplying the apparitional and austere sounds of a world in which everyone is something they’re not — ie., the people they dream of being.

TRACKLISTING
1.    MICHAEL’S OPENING
2.    BLUES 1
3.    BLUES 2 (INTRO)
4.    3D GIRLS
5.    PANAMA 1
6.    SPOOK
7.    GARDEN WALK
8.    STEPPE SPIRITUAL
9.    POPE IN THE BATH
10.    NUN’S PRAYER
11.    MR. LONELY VIOLA
12.    BERYL SCEPTER
13.    RED RIDING HOOD’S HANGMAN
14.    STOOGES HARMONICA
15.    FATHER UMBRILLO’S BROKEN NATION
16.    MUSICBOX UNDERWATER
17.    CIRCUS THEME
18.    VINE STREET PIANO
19.    PARIS BEACH
20.    FAREWELL