How I Live Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Double Mercury Music Prize nominee Jon Hopkins has turned his expert hand to film once again with the soundtrack to How I Live Now, having previously worked on ‘The Lovely Bones’ with Brian Eno and scoring the sci-fi classic ‘Monsters’. For the soundtrack, released on October 14 via Just Music, he’s collaborated with Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan on the song ‘Garden’s Heart’ as well as continuing some of the excellent double-edged work found on Immunity. Featuring some of his darkest, most nihilistic work to date, the score is built from two contrasting elements – atonal, sub-terrestrial drones with a backbone of pounding rhythms, and sublimely pastoral acoustic piano. These two opposing musical forces guide the viewer through the film, by turns disturbing and beautifully meditative. The centrepiece of the score is the track The Hawk, a timeless and heartbreaking theme that recurs throughout the film. How I Live Now is the big screen adaptation of the award-winning young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, directed by acclaimed Academy Award winning director Kevin McDonald (The Last King Of Scotland, Marley) and starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones, Hanna) as Daisy. How I Live Now also stars George MacKay (The Boys Are Back, Sunshine on Leith) as Eddie, Tom Holland (The Impossible) as Isaac, Harley Bird (‘Peppa Pig’) as Piper, Danny McEvoy as Joe and Anna Chancellor as Aunt Penn.