Karen O & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST

Karen O singer for the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs releases her OST to new Spike Jonze film released 11/1209 To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians.Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, these include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children’s choir. Jonze reminded O that the music would play a heavy role in the film. That’s saying a lot, considering it’s based on the Maurice Sendak classic – one of the most beloved books of all time -- with a screenplay co-written by Jonze and author and McSweeney’s publisher Dave Eggers.

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