Lakeshore Records has released Levitius—
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally with music by Jed Kurzel (Tornado, The Order). Kurzel’s extraordinarily eerie and atmospheric soundscapes take the queer-themed horror film to unnerving heights. The Neon film directed by Adrian Chiarella and starring Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen is in theaters now.
Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most – each other.
Notes Kurzel:” The Leviticus score hovers over the film as the voice and otherworldly presence of the ‘The Entity’ while also accompanying Naim and Ryans fragile relationship.
I wanted to build these separate worlds and then somehow find a way for them to merge.”
Track List
01. Shower
02. Bikes
03. Naim and Ryan
04. The Table
05. Faith Healer
06. Frogs
07. Yard
08. Ice Rink
09. Servo
10. Entity
11. Flame
12. Bus
13. School
14. Journey
15. Get Out Of The Car
16. Sleep
17. Corridor
18. Screen Door
19. Escape
20. Make It Stop
21. The Search
22. Leviticus
ABOUT JED KURZEL
Jed Kurzel is an award-winning composer and musician. His feature film debut for the critically-acclaimed Australian movie The Snowtown Murders was named Feature Film Score of the Year at Australia’s 2011 Screen Music Awards and he has since gone on to score feature films including: The Babadook, which William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, described as the most “terrifying film” he had ever seen; Slow West, which won Jed his second Australian and New Zealand Screen Music Award for Feature Film Score of the Year in 2015; Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, which premiered in competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; Assassin’s Creed for 20th Century Fox ; Alien: Covenant for master auteur Ridley Scott; Jupiter’s Moon, which premiered in competition at Cannes in 2017; Una , the film adaptation of David Harrower’s Oliver Award-winning play Blackbird, starring Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn; Overlord for producer J.J. Abrams and Paramount; The Mustang for Focus Features, starring Matthias Schoenaerts; The Nightingale which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice film festival; Seberg starring Kristen Stewart; The True History of the Kelly Gang which won Jed his third Australian Screen Music Award; Nitram, which premiered in competition at Cannes in 2021 and won Best Actor for Caleb Landry Jones; Encounter for Amazon, starring Riz Ahmed, which was nominated for Best Score at the 2021 British Independent Film Awards; Samaritan for MGM/UA, starring Sylvester Stallone; the supernatural thriller The Pope’s Exorcist for Sony; Monkey Man for Universal directed by Dev Patel; The Order starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult for Amazon Prime; Tornado for director John Maclean, which was nominated for Best Original Music at the British Independent Film Awards and won Feature Film Score of the Year at the APRA Awards, and the series The Narrow Road to the Deep North starring Jacob Elordi for Sony/Amazon Prime which won Best Original Music Score for a Television Series at the AACTA Awards.
Before shifting his focus to composing, Jed was best known as the frontman and songwriter for Australian duo The Mess Hall. Their 2006 album Devil’s Elbow was awarded the prestigious Australian Music Prize in 2007.
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, which was 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.
For more information, contact: www.lakeshorerecords.com
Read Lakeshore’s blog Soundtracks, Scores And More here: https://soundtracksscoresandmore.com
