Lakeshore Records announces the 
digital release today of I Love Boosters–Original Motion Picture Score—with music by the incomparably creative duo Tune-Yards (AKA Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner). Their vividly offbeat melodies augment the divergent character themes and often antic storylines and become a crucial element in the fearless and bold filmmaking of director Boots Riley—a regular collaborator. The NEON film will be released in theaters May 22.
I Love Boosters synopsis: A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service.
Notes Tune-Yards: “The I Love Boosters score sounds like three different bands scoring the same film, music that we hope is as unpredictable and multilayered as Boots’ creative world. It’s some of the wildest and far-reaching music we’ve ever composed, because Boots pushes everyone around him to the furthest edges of their creativity.”
Track List:
- Hi Ho
- Lonely Plunk
- Bossa Plunk
- Pinky Ring Dude
- Documentary Muzak
- Clown Theme
- Dr. Jack
- Corvasieracy
- Boosting
- Hi Ho Wild Vamp
- The Stolen Design
- You Don’t Have a Plan?
- Metrofunk
- Jianhu
- Situational Accelerator
- Skinless
- Epic Chase, Pt. 1
- Epic Chase, Pt. 2
- Mall Rage
- Foot Chase
- Three Devices
- Triumph
- Touching the World
- Hi Ho (Extended)
ABOUT TUNE-YARDS
Tune-Yards is the musical project of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, who have been touring and writing music together since 2009. The duo’s sixth studio record, Better Dreaming, was released on the respected label 4AD in May 2025, and finds the band continuing to push the boundaries of what popular music can be.
Ever since Garbus began performing solo shows with a looping pedal and ukulele around 2006, Tune-Yards has become synonymous with bold creativity and experimentation. That philosophy led the duo to collaborations with groundbreaking artists such as Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Byrne, and into their recent creative relationship with Boots Riley, for whom they’ve scored two feature films and one TV series: 2018’s Sorry to Bother You, I Love Boosters (to be released by NEON on May 22nd, 2026) and the acclaimed television series, I’m A Virgo.
The duo continues to tour, known for explosive performances and transformational musical experiences which connect audiences to larger political and social themes. They live in Oakland, California.
ABOUT NEON
In only nine years, NEON has garnered 57 Academy Award® nominations, winning Best Picture for Sean Baker’s Anora and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite. This year, NEON received 18 Oscar nominations, the second most for any motion picture studio behind Warner Bros. Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent were both nominated for best picture, with Sentimental Value ultimately winning the award for Best International Film – bringing the studio’s total to 11 wins.
NEON continues to champion bold, risk-taking cinema and has built an impressive streak winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, with six consecutive wins, including this most recent year’s winner It Was Just an Accident, as well as Anora, Parasite, Anatomy of a Fall, Titane, and Triangle of Sadness. In 2024, NEON was named The Hollywood Reporter’s Independent Studio of the Year and received the Clio Award for Studio of the Year.
As a burgeoning leader in the production space, NEON’s recent and upcoming in-house productions include Boots Riley feature I Love Boosters which premiered to rave reviews in SXSW and will be released in May, and David Robert Mitchell’s They Follow.
NEON has grossed over half-a-billion at the box office, highlights include Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, whichwas the highest grossing independent film of 2024 at $75 million domestically, and his follow-up feature The Monkey, NEON’s second highest opening. The studio is currently in post on its fourth Perkins film, The Young People. Their upcoming slate includes notable auteurs such as Chloe Domont, Cristian Mungiu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Chloe Okuno, Takashi Miike. NEON’s recent releases include Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie and Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. Up next: Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers; Hokum starring Adam Scott; Alex Ullom’s It Ends; and Sundance hit Leviticus.
NEON’s library spans more than 140 films, including Academy Award® nominees Sirat, Arco, Perfect Days, Robot Dreams, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Moonage Daydream, and Flee, which made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar® nominations; double Oscar nominee The Worst Person in The World, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and triple Oscar nominee and winner I, Tonya.
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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