Lakeshore Records has released Nickel
Boys—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally, on December 6 featuring an original score by composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario. The ethereal and often dissonant sound of the score augments the intense storyline and striking stylistic elements of the movie based on Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys. Directed by RaMell Ross and starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger,and Daveed Diggs, the Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios release hits select theaters on December 13.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, NICKEL BOYS chronicles the powerful friendship between two Black teenagers who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Florida. In breakout performances that cut to the bone, Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson play Elwood and Turner, whose close bond helps sustain their hope even as truths unfold around them at the Nickel Academy.
Notes Alario and Somers: After twenty years of making music together, working on Nickel Boys felt like the perfect moment. RaMell Ross’s vision was powerful, and I’m grateful we could contribute to it. From our creative process in Alex’s LA studio to field recordings in New Orleans on the film set, the music came together organically, capturing both the beauty and the haunting weight of the story. This project reminded us how art can bring people together and create hope, even in the face of trauma.
Track List
- Stare – Alex Somers
- Out There in Here – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- Color Memory – Alex Somers
- Bees Buzzing – Alex Somers
- Not Be Long – Alex Somers
- Grown Into – Alex Somers
- Out Out – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- Do Re Mi – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- What’s Ours? – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- Whirl – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- No – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- Black and White Photo Booth – Alex Somers
- Blooming Bloody – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- Boxcar – Alex Somers, Scott Alario
- Lockets Closing – Alex Somers
- Lockets Opening – Alex Somers
Purchase / Stream the Album: https://lnk.to/nickelboys
ABOUT ALEX SOMERS
Alex Somers is an American composer and music producer. After studying at Berklee College of Music, he relocated to Reykjavík Iceland where he attended the Iceland Academy of the Arts. In Reykjavík, Alex honed his skills as a composer, producer, audio engineer and mixer. After twelve years in Reykjavík, he moved to Los Angeles and has been steeped in creating music for film and TV.
Somers latest project sees him team up with artist and composer Scott Alario for the forthcoming film Nickel Boys (MGM, 2024).
Recent projects include:
Honey Boy, Captain Fantastic, Nickel Boys, Holland Michigan, Taylor Swift Miss Americana, The Biggest Little Farm Series, Causeway, Sigur Rós Valtari, Jónsi & Alex Somers – Riceboy Sleeps.
ABOUT SCOTT ALARIO
Scott Alario (American b. 1983) is an artist and composer living and working in Providence, RI. Alario makes music as a solo artist (Sorry I’m Late, 2022) and as a collaborator with LA based composer Alex Somers, since 2003. The two co-scored (with Forest Kelley) the 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening(2018, directed by RaMell Ross). More recently, Alario and Somers connected with Ross again, this time to compose music for his fiction feature debut, the forthcoming film Nickel Boys (MGM, 2024).
ABOUT AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Amazon MGM Studios is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and television content. Original series premiere on Prime Video, which is available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Original films are produced and acquired by the studio for theatrical release and exclusively for Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios also produces content for MGM+, the premium pay television network, and Freevee, Amazon’s premium free streaming service.
ABOUT ORION PICTURES
Orion Pictures is a label at Amazon MGM Studios that develops, produces and acquires feature films that amplify underserved voices, both in front of and behind the camera.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning 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, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the GRAMMY-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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