Zammuto, Nick
We The Animals O.s.t.
'We The Animals' is the award-winning film from Jeremiah Zagar ('In A Dream'). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, 'We The Animals' is Zagar's first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film's setting in rural upstate New York -and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago- Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter - and betraying of its minimal instrumentation.