Hollywood Records and Searchlight 
Pictures announce the release of SUNCOAST (Original Soundtrack) with music by Este Haim and Christopher Stracey. The album also features a cover of The National’s “Green Gloves” by singer Monica Martin produced by Este and Christopher.
The 17-track album is available now, on digital platforms coinciding with the Searchlight Pictures’ film streaming now exclusively on Disney’s DTC platforms as an Original Film on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.
Director Laura Chinn remarks on the score – Music is extremely important to me. I knew, with this film, that I wanted all the songs to be period accurate, from the early aughts, and Mary Ramos, our incredible music supervisor, was making amazingly nostalgic 2000’s playlists for us before we even started filming.
When Mary told me that Este Haim had read the script and was interested in composing the score, I leapt at the chance to meet her. I have been a huge fan of Haim’s for over a decade, and I knew Este and I were similar in age, both of us were coming of age in the early aughts. I listened to the other scores that she and her partner, Chris Stracey, had created for Maid and Cha Cha Real Smooth and fell in love with the emotion and energy behind their sound.
When Este and I first met, we immediately bonded over listening to the same music as teenagers (Devendra Banhart, My Morning Jacket, Erykah Badu) and I just instinctively knew she was the perfect composer for this film. She and Chris sent us tracks very early on, after they watched the first cut, and suddenly the film had its own musical language, they nailed the tone and wonderfully balanced real emotion with a lighthearted touch, never making the score emotionally manipulative or inauthentic.
We knew that The National’s Green Gloves was the only song that would work for the culmination of Doris’ story. Matt Berninger spoke about the lyrics in an interview: “It’s more about trying to remember someone and sort of be them—someone that you’ve lost your connection with (maybe because of a death)—so you reconnect with them by getting inside their clothes, watching their videos, getting in their bed. You’re actually recreating them somehow in order to know them better.” It’s an eerily perfect song for the movie but we wanted Este and Chris to cover it with a modern female singer, so Doris’ big moment could be underscored with female vocals and Monica Martin’s soothing voice felt like the exact right choice for Doris’ inner monologue.
ABOUT SUNCOAST
Inspired by the semi-autobiographical story of a teenager (Nico Parker) who, while caring for her brother along with her audacious mother (Laura Linney), strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Track listing –
- Doris & Max
- Suncoast
- Like Your Brother
- Life At Suncoast
- H.B.
- Song for Paul
- Home
- She Didn’t Wake Up
- Since I Was Five
- Kristine & Max
- Tonight
- Memories
- Most Important Night of Our Lives
- Green Gloves*
- Don’t Go
- Keep On Keeping On
- Light Years Away
*By Monica Martin
ABOUT ESTE HAIM
Este Haim is a GRAMMY® nominated musician, composer, actor, and writer. In 2007, Este and her sisters, Danielle, and Alana, founded HAIM, their all-female rock band in which Este sings as well as plays the bass. HAIM made history in 2021 as the first all-female rock group to be nominated for GRAMMY® Album of The Year with their third album, “Women In Music Pt. III.” Throughout her music career, Este has collaborated with many artists including Kid Cudi, Charli XCX, Thundercat, and Taylor Swift.
In 2021, Este scored the critically acclaimed Netflix limited series, “MAID,” starring Margaret Qualley. She also completed the score for her first feature film, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” starring Dakota Johnson, alongside her composing partner Christopher Stracey. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. In 2023, she was the Executive Music Producer and Song Producer for the Disney+ series “A Small Light.” Recently, she’s scored Netflix’s “You’re SO Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah!”, with co-composer Amanda Yamate and Searchlight Pictures’ “Suncoast,” again with Christopher Stracey.
Additionally, Este made her feature film debut as an actress in Paul Thomas Anderson’s, “LICORICE PIZZA,” which released December 25, 2021.
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER STRACEY
Christopher Stracey is a composer, record producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Los Angeles, California. He scored Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” alongside collaborator Este Haim, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2022 and was released by Apple in June. Also, in collaboration with Este, Christopher scored the Netflix hit TV series “Maid.” He has also scored the feature film “War Pony” alongside collaborator Mato Wayuhi for Riley Keough and Gina Gammell which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 and was awarded the Caméra d’Or. Upcoming for Christopher is the drama / thriller “Manodrome” starring Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the drama feature “Suncoast” along with Este for Searchlight Pictures written and directed by Laura Chinn and starring Woody Harrelson and Laura Linney, and the drama sci-fi feature “Fingernails” for Apple starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Annie Murphy and Jeremy Allen White.
With a classically trained background, Christopher grew up studying violin from an early age, and later moved on to guitar, clarinet, saxophone, and keyboards before discovering the near unlimited possibilities of electronic music production. As a songwriter and producer, he has worked across almost all musical genres and styles with popular artists ranging from Orville Peck to Ellie Goulding, to Westside Boogie, to Diplo and more. He is also one half of Australian synth-pop/dance music group Bag Raiders which has earned platinum and gold records in multiple countries around the world including the USA, Australia, Germany and more.
In 2021 he released his first solo record entitled “Music for Growing Plants”. The compositions reflect his explorations into different sonic worlds through both organic and electronic instrumentation.
ABOUT MONICA MARTIN
Monica Martin is a Chicago-born singer-songwriter who grew up in rural Wisconsin, mostly waiting for Billie Holiday videos to load on back-country dial-up or making trips in a busted Geo Metro to watch punk shows in Milwaukee. Trained as a hairdresser, she didn’t have musical plans beyond joke singing harmonies over the radio. She fronted the acclaimed experimental-folk-pop sextet, PHOX, formed just outside Madison, Wisconsin. Eventually, Monica moved to LA because “Wisconsin is cold as f*ck”. She found herself a little periwinkle casita and is feeling freer than ever in the city of misfits. She’s recently touring as support for James Blake, Marcus Mumford, Nickel Creek and Lake Street Dive. Monica is presently at work on her first album, it’s going slowly.
ABOUT HOLLYWOOD RECORDS / DMG
Disney Music Group is home to Hollywood Records, Walt Disney Records, Disney Music Publishing, Buena Vista Records, and Disney Concerts. DMG releases music and film and television soundtracks from some of the largest movie franchises in the world – from Disney, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Searchlight Pictures, and 20th Century Films including the chart-topping albums “Encanto,” “Frozen 2,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Oscar® and Grammy®-winning “Frozen,” the Grammy®-winning “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the Emmy®-winning music from “WandaVision” and “The Mandalorian,” the Oscar® and Grammy®-winning “Soul” score, plus the Oscar®-winning “Black Panther,” “Coco” and “Moana” soundtracks. Recent titles include “Chevalier,” “A Haunting in Venice,” “The Creator,” “Elemental,” “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3,” “The Little Mermaid” plus the television soundtracks “Ahsoka” and “Only Murders in the Building: Season 3.” Upcoming releases include “Wish,” “The Marvels,” “All of Us Strangers,” and “A Murder at the End of the World.”
DMG’s rich and eclectic catalog has impacted pop culture globally, including music from films such as “Snow White,” “Star Wars,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” as well as recording artist Annette Funicello, and the beloved classic song “It’s a Small World.” DMG produces Disney’s For Scores podcast series and The Big Score video series highlighting conversations with acclaimed film composers from DMG soundtracks. Disney Concerts licenses and produces hundreds of shows around the world, including Star Wars in Concert, Disney on Classic, Pixar in Concert, and many more.
The labels’ genre-spanning rosters include Queen (in North America), little image, Andy Grammer, Sofia Carson, TINI Stoessel, kenzie, almost monday, New Hope Club and more.
