Lakeshore Records announces the
release of Animal Farm—Soundtrack from the Angel Film digitally today, May 1 featuring music by Grammy Award-winning composer Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me). Ranging from joyous to sinister, the extraordinarily vivid orchestral score provides a backdrop to the many thematic and emotional themes of the animated reimagining of the classic book adapted by director Andy Serkis. The soundtrack also includes three high energy electronic tracks by legendary DJ Carl Cox. Animal Farm, featuring an all-star voice cast including Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, and Woody Harrelson, is in theaters beginning today. The film is distributed by Angel, a media and technology company successfully pioneering a first-of-its-kind audience-driven studio model.
Notes Pereira: “I grew up reading George Orwell’s books and have always admired Andy Serkis’s work in our film universe. The story is so compelling and current that there is a certain importance attached to it. Andy did a great job directing it, and I’m proud to have been invited to collaborate with him. There are lots of melodies in the score, and there is a lot of music in it!”
Track List
- Going on Vacation
- Laughterhouse
- Rebellion
- Break Down The Barn
- I Want That Farm
- The Farmhouse
- The Farm Commandments
- About to Burst
- Let’s Farm!
- Napoleon
- Take All Our Worries Away
- Build a Water Wheel
- Construction Project
- Farm Meeting
- Give Us Grain
- All Animals Are Equal
- A Moment with Napoleon
- A Visit from the Bank
- Pigs Gotta Stick with Pigs
- Time to Shop
- Napoleon’s Proposal
- Stand Up to the Humans
- The Water Wheel
- Farmhouse Party
- Winter Arrives
- An Alliance Forms
- No Grain, Big Surprise
- The Rogues (Carl Cox)
- The Inevitable
- Napoleon is Always Right
- Boxer Saves the Worker
- Boxer is Hurt
- End Up Like Them
- Animal or Pig?
- The Rebellion Starts Now
- Drone Farm (Carl Cox)
- Operation Party Pooper
- Blue Danube
- My Bunker My Party (Carl Cox)
- The Dam Breaks
- Not What They Seem
- Animal Farm Song
ABOUT ANIMAL FARM
From visionary director Andy Serkis, and featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Glenn Close, and Woody Harrelson, comes a satirical allegory of revolution and power. Animal Farm traces how a movement for equality is systematically corrupted. As the pigs consolidate control, truth is erased, dissent is crushed, and the farm descends into a ruthless dictatorship—fulfilling Orwell’s warning about the dangers of communism.
Animal Farm was produced by Adam Nagle and Dave Rosenbaum for Aniventure, and Jonathan Cavendish and Andy Serkis for Imaginarium Productions, with animation from Cinesite.
ABOUT HEITOR PEREIRA
Heitor Pereira is a Brazilian composer who comes from a family of Brazilian musicians. He began his career as a guitarist, working with some of the greatest names in Brazilian music, including Milton Nascimento, Ivan Lins, and Caetano Veloso, among many others. In the early ‘90s, Pereira joined the English soul band Simply Red, with whom he made numerous records, touring with them for ten years. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Pereira entered the world of film music. Beginning as a session musician, he played on some of Hollywood’s biggest franchises of the 2000s, including The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission Impossible: II, The Simpsons Movie, Madagascar, Man on Fire, and Domino.
His first score for film was HBO’s Real Women Have Curves. Soon after, he discovered his love of animated films, writing the score forCurious George and collaborating with Jack Johnson, tailoring his songs to the film. Since then, he has written many scores for blockbuster family hits including the Despicable Me, Smurfs, and Angry Birds franchises; acclaimed dramas such as If I Stay, A Little Bit of Heaven, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights; and romantic comedies including It’s Complicated and The Valet. Pereira’s most recent work includes the box office smashes Minions, Minions: The Rise of Gru, and Despicable Me 4; Paw Patrol: The Movie; My Little Pony: A New Generation; and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Pereira’s film scores have garnered critical acclaim and accolades, including Annie Award nominations (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Smallfoot), Hollywood Music in Media Award nominations (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), as well as ASCAP Film & TV music awards. In 2006, Pereira won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his work on “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?” with Chris Botti and Sting. In 2017, Pereira won the Emmy for Outstanding Music and Sound for his work on Sonic Sea, the NRDC-sponsored documentary about the impact of man-made sound on ocean life.
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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