The Twits, soundtrack from the 
Netflix original film is available everywhere now. Composer Oli Julian brings his signature blend of wit, warmth, and orchestral inventiveness to Netflix’s The Twits, the first-ever feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic tale. A lifelong fan of Dahl’s mischievous world, Julian approached the score with a sense of playful anarchy, capturing both the grotesque humor and heart of the story. His music bursts with character and imagination, fusing unexpected instruments like banjos, jaw harps, Balkan brass, and musical saws with lush orchestral and choral arrangements. The result is a delightfully chaotic and cinematic soundscape that mirrors the Twits’ topsy-turvy world—equal parts mischievous, magical, and unmistakably Dahl.
OLI JULIAN notes, “The score for the movie – like the Twits themselves – is kleptomaniacal and eccentric. Whether it’s the flatulent brass of Mr Twit or the screeching soprano of Mrs Twit, we’re taken on an exciting, grotesque yet ultimately heartwarming journey blending genres and instrumentation.
It’s rare that as a composer you get to combine orchestras, banjos, drums, saws, choirs and metal guitars in one score, and hopefully to do so in a way that feels right for the story, finding beauty in amongst the yuk.”
THE TWITS (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) SCORE BY OLI JULIAN AND SONGS BY DAVID BYRNE
TRACK LISTING
- Open The Door
- Lullaby
- The Problem
- We’re Not Like Everyone Else
- Not Normal People
- Muggle-Wumps Discovered
- Muggle-Wumps Escape
- Sweet Toed Toad
- Cook You In A Pie
- Condemned Park
- Flobnorbles
- Trick Me
- The Twits Steal Loos
- Magical Tears
- Muggle-Wump Party
- Back In Business
- The Twits Get Arrested
- Riot
- I’ve Got Your Back
- The Twits Scheme
- Hiding Under The Bed
- The Twits On The Stairs
- Mouldy Leftovers
- The Twits Bake A Cake
- Beech Comes Back
- Not On My Watch
- Voice Changer
- Stealing The Orphanage
- Family Toad
- Twitlandia
- The Twit Family Extravaganza
- Making An Escape
- Honest twits
- Fireworks
- Upside Down
- The Dreaded Shrinks
- Saving The Twits
- Hate Is Easy
- Goodbye To The Twits
- If We Were Good
- We’re Not Like Everyone Else
ABOUT THE TWITS
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits’ beloved tricks–from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.
ABOUT OLI JULIAN
Oli Julian is an RTS award-winning and Ivor-nominated composer, producer and arranger of music for TV and film. He has written scores for a wide range of drama and comedy projects, as well as collaborating with other composers and songwriters such as David Byrne, Nick Cave and Ezra Furman.
Recent work includes Sex Education (Netflix), Renegade Nell (Disney+), Amandaland (BBC), Us (BBC Two), The Full Monty (Disney+), Alma’s Not Normal, the features Fackham Hall, How To Build A Girl and Greatest Days. He has scored TV series including Catastrophe (C4), Motherland (BBC), Breeders (Sky), Cuckoo (BBC3), Plebs (ITV2), BAFTA-winning In My Skin (BBC), as well as the forthcoming highly-anticipated feature adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic The Twits for Netflix.
ABOUT DAVID BYRNE
David Byrne is an Oscar winning composer, songwriter and singer, best known for being frontman of the New Wave/punk band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Born in Scotland but raised in the United States in Maryland, Byrne began performing musically in high school.
Byrne attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) between 1970 and ’71. He dropped out to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art before dropping out for good in 1972. He returned to Providence and started a band in 1973 called The Artistics with Chris Frantz, whom he knew at RISD. The band broke up in May ’74 and Byrne moved to New York, followed by Frantz and his girlfriend Tina Weymouth in September. The three started performing as Talking Heads in 1975. The band was one of the major acts of the punk and new wave scene of the 1970s.
Byrne won an Oscar and a Grammy Award for his soundtrack to the movie The Last Emperor (1987) in 1988, the same year Talking Heads ceased to function. Except for a brief reunion in 1991, the band stopped recording together in ’88 as Byrne launched a solo career. Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
