Lakeshore Records is set to release Nickel 
Boys—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in special vinyl edition with an original score by composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario. The Oscar-nominated film features an ethereal and often dissonant score that augments the intense storyline and striking stylistic elements of the film based on Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys. The album pressed on “Metallic Gold” vinyl features a full color insert and will be available April 25.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, Nickel Boyschronicles 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.
Nickel Boys is nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Follow the film on social: @NickelBoysMovie
Note Somers and Alario: “Creating the music for Nickel Boys has been one of the most fulfilling creative endeavors of our lives. The way the point of view camera exists to allow the audience to not only see what the characters see, but to feel what they see, our music exists to illuminate what cannot be seen but is felt.”
Track Listing:
Side A – 20:15
01 Stare 5:18
02 Out There In Here 3:51
03 Color Memory 5:49
04 Bees Buzzing 3:22
05 Not Be Long 1:55
Side B – 22:41
01 Grown Into 2:34
02 Do Re Mi 2:22
03 What’s Ours? 2:12
04 Whirl 3:49
05 Black and White Photo Booth 2:56
06 Blooming Bloody 3:08
07 Boxcar 1:05
08 Lockets Opening 4:35
Preorder the album here: https://lakeshorerecordsshop.com/products/nickel-boys
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 saw him team up with artist and composer Scott Alario for the film Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios, 2024).
Recent projects include:
Nickel Boys, Honey Boy, Captain Fantastic, Nickel Boys, Holland, 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 film Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios, 2024).
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 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.
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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