Lakeshore Records has released A Friend Of 
The Family—Original Series Soundtrack digitally January 6 with music composed by Ariel Marx (Candy, Shiva Baby). The score provides a multi-faceted backdrop to the series based on a horrifying true story, augmenting a complex narrative that ranges from strikingly charismatic to overtly menacing. The Peacock original series was written and executive produced by Nick Antosca and stars Anna Paquin, Jake Lacy, Colin Hanks and Lio Tipton.
A Friend of the Family is based on the harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter, Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of a few years by a charismatic, obsessed family “friend.” The Brobergs—devoted to their faith, family, and community—were utterly unprepared for the sophisticated tactics their neighbor used to exploit their vulnerabilities, drive them apart and turn their daughter against them. This is the story of how their lives were permanently altered, and how they survived.
Says Marx: “Writing the score for ‘A Friend of the Family’ was an incredible privilege. Both Jan Broberg’s involvement and Nick Antosca’s delicate handling of the material helped create a narrative that is emotionally harrowing, but also deeply empathetic and even hopeful. The series called for a score that could quickly shape-shift between idyllic and nightmarish, from public-facing charisma to private predation. In many ways, the story is about what the Broberg’s didn’t see, and while the score implies the darkness that was hidden in plain sight, it also tracks the family’s complex growth and survival.”
Track List
- Always Be My Dolly
- That’s My Girl
- Disappearing
- Got Him On Tape
- The Gun
- One Year Later
- Nowhere Left To Run
- Hey There Movie Star
- Forever
- The Raid
- Eternal Companion
- Do You Recognize Her
- Didn’t Hear This From Me
- Follow My Instructions
- Could You Love A Jailbird
- Runaway
- Always Gonna Be Pals
- You Just Love Me
- My Whole Heart
- Driving To Ogden
- The White Box
- Jan’s Birthday
- Faulkner Loop Road
- Confession
- Just Our Family
- Eden Before The Snake
- Sold The Store
- Did It
- Letters From B
- Stakeout
- You’re Too Young
- Done Talking
- Let It Burn
- Enjoy Your Vacation
- Evil Man
- I Tried
- After B
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ABOUT ARIEL MARX
An eclectic composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel Marx draws from many genres and often combines orchestral and rare instruments with electronics to create unique worlds of sound. Her scores have premiered in films at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Woodstock, Criterion Channel, as well as films and shows on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, FX, HBO, Mubi, Discovery+. She is a member of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab alumn.
Some of Ariel’s most recent projects include Disney+/ABC series A Small Light , UCP/Peacock’s A Friend of the Family, UCP/Hulu’s Candy (ranked number 3 in Indiewire’s Best TV scores of 2022), and FX/Hulu’s American Horror Stories. Her other works for film and television also include Utopia’s Shiva Baby, Neon/Super Ltd’s Sanctuary, HBO’s The Tale, Shudder’s Birth/Rebirth, Magnolia’s Next Exit, Discovery+’s Rebel Hearts, Amazon’s Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, FX/Hulu’s Children of the Underground, Netflix’s My Love and Principles of Pleasure, and Good Deed Entertainments To Dust, among others. As a solo artist, Ariel recently released her solo album Luthier with Node Records.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a seven-time Grammy Nominated record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Drive, Stranger Things, The Old Guard, Cyberpunk 2077, When They See Us, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, Les Miserables, Mandy, Narcos, Logan, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legion, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
Lakeshore Records works with the most respected, award-winning artists and composers such as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Nicholas Britell, Hans Zimmer, Grimes, Common, Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi, Tim Hecker, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Sam Slater, Willie Nelson, Alexandre Desplat, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Run the Jewels, PJ Harvey, Philip Glass, Aloe Blacc, Willie Nelson, Rhiannon Ghiddens, Daniel Lanois, Nicholas Britell, Ziggy Marley, Danny Elfman, Giorgio Moroder, Aska Matsumiya, Clint Mansell, Bootsie Collins, Thomas Newman, Kris Bowers, Cliff Martinez, Randy Newman, James Horner, Gunship, Mark Isham, Kathryn Bostic, Carter Burwell, Bear McCreary, Emile Mosseri, Rolfe Kent, Josh Homme, Gustavo Santaolalla, Nina Kraviz, Dario Marianelli, Mark Mothersbaugh, The JBs, Gazelle Twin, Mary J. Blige, Christophe Beck, Rachel Portman, Amanda Jones, Jeff Russo, Henry Jackman, Marco Beltrami, Ben Lovett, Keegan Dewitt and many many more.
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