Waxwork Records is proud to present the Us Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring a score by composer Michael Abels. Us, released in March 2019, is an original nightmare written, directed and produced by Academy Award®-winning visionary Jordan Peele (Get Out). Set in present-day Santa Cruz on the iconic Northern California coastline, the film, starring Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong’o and Black Panther’s Winston Duke, pits an ordinary American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
Abels featured a 30 person choir, a third of them children, in the “Anthem,” and implemented Eastern European instruments, violins, percussion, and a virtual instrument called a Propanium drum. “It makes this trashy metal sound, but you can also play melodies on it,” Abels said. “The Propanium drum has a sound that’s both otherworldly but not electronic or like science fiction. It’s a sound you can’t quite put your finger on, which is why it works well in this film.”
Also included on the soundtrack is the 1995 hip-hop hit “I Got 5 On It” by Luniz and the stand-out track “I Like That” by Janelle Monáe. Abels also helped with a new arrangement of the Luniz hit, which is featured on the soundtrack as the ‘Tethered Mix from Us’.
Waxwork is thrilled to present the soundtrack and score as a deluxe double LP featuring 180 gram “The Untethering” Red, Brass, and White split colored vinyl. The album artwork was created by illustrator Edward Kinsella. The interactive packaging includes die-cut inner gatefold jackets that require customers to use scissors to cut through family-member portraits to reveal their tethered doppelgängers lurking in the shadows on the printed inner sleeves housed within. More deluxe items include a die-cut mirror board back cover, a heavyweight 11”x11” art print, and an exclusive essay by UCLA Professor, scholar, and activist Shana L. Redmond Ph.D., author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
US Original Motion picture Soundtrack With Score Features:
- The Complete Score By Michael Abels
- 180 Gram “The Untethering” Colored Vinyl
- Interactive Gatefold Jacket w/ Satin CoatingDie-Cut Mirror Board Back Cover
Art By Edward Kinsella
Liner Notes By Shana L. Redmond Ph.D.
Heavyweight 11″x11″ Art Print
* Scissors not included
Tracklist:
- Anthem
- I Like That – Janelle Monae
- Outernet
- Spider
- Ballet Memory
- I Got 5 On It – Luniz
- Beach Walk
- First Man Standing
- Back to the House
- Keep You Safe
- Don’t Feel Like Myself
- She Tried to Kill Me
- Boogieman’s Family
- Home Invasion
- Once Upon a Time
- Run
- Into the Water
- Spark in the Closet
- Escape to the Boat
- Femme Fatale
- Silent Scream
- News Report
- Zora Drives
- Death of Umbrae
- Somber Ride
- Immolation
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- Performance Art
- Human
- Battle Plan
- Pas de Deuz
- They Can’t Hurt You
- Finale
- Les Fleurs – Minnie Riperton
- I Got 5 On It – Tethered Mix
