This is one you’re going to want to watch in full-blast, all-encompassing surround sound.įor all your TV and entertainment news, get the latest episode of The Binge in your ears. Drive to the cinema (yes, the cinema) and buy yourself a ticket to see Baby Driver. ‘Unsquare Dance’ by The Dave Brubeck Quartet is a departure from our ‘Despacito’ tendencies but will have you nodding your head and tapping your feet the entire train ride home. The opening track, ‘Bellbottoms’ is the ultimate ‘strutting down the street’ tune with a powerful guitar riff and gritty electronic dance base. Our favourites? Well, it's hard to pick a standout track on the diverse soundtrack, with each melody providing its own bluesy attitude infused beat. There is no doubt the soundtrack provides ample opportunity for that.
In a recent interview about the movie, Heffington describes his favourite scene in the movie in which he makes Elgort ‘dance his ass off’. Heffington’s resume includes Sia's 'Chandelier' music video and Arcade Fire’s 'We Exist'.
He’s joined by Foxx, who has proven he can belt out a tune or two, and Flea, the bassist for the band Red Hot Chilli Papers.Īs if that wasn’t enough, Wright also employed Ryan Heffington as the movie’s choreographer. Lead actor Elgort, who plays Baby, is a DJ with eight singles behind him. One song in particular, 'Easy' by the Commodores, was specifically written into the script after Elgort improvised a scene to the track during his auditions.Īnd who better to star in a movie with such a big focus on music, than a bunch of part-time musicians? From left: Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González and Jon Hamm. James described how the director, Edgar Wright, used the music as the inspiration for most of the film’s scenes, saying Wright “wrote every single scene to a specific piece of music”. It’s an apt description considering most of the 30 songs on the soundtrack are heard in their entirety rather than just the brief snippets we’ve become accustomed to in Hollywood productions. “With this movie the soundtrack is so integral, the whole movie moves with the music… It’s like watching a two-hour music video,” Elgort told the panel. With the movie taking its title from the 1969 soul tune, ‘Baby Driver’ by Simon and Garfunkel, it’s no surprise the soundtrack is tipped to top music charts.Īt the time of writing this, the film’s Spotify playlist already has more than 124,000 followers and counting.Īppearing on The Project last night, the stars of the movie, Ansel Elgort and Lily James, described how important the soundtrack was. It could also (more accurately) be described as the film with this year’s most addictive soundtrack, backed up by Hollywood stars Kevin Spacey, John Hamm and Jamie Foxx. It’s a fun film and a big part of that fun is in the soundtrack.Baby Driver is one of those don’t-think-too-hard films filled with car chases and rock’n’roll and soul and its soundtrack album works well as both a character (of sorts) in the film and as a compilation album that could play to an audience unaware of the movie’s plot. What do you guys think? As impressed with this as we are? Excited to see how it all fits into the movie? You won't have to wait much longer: Baby Driver arrives on June 28th, five days after this soundtrack will be available for purchase.Baby Driver could be described as an action-musical-romantic comedy bonanza. Various Artists: Baby Driver OST Columbia Records. If you head on over to Amazon right now, you'll see the soundtrack is currently available to pre-order on both CD and vinyl (!!!) I've embedded the CD version for you in the space below. That's thirty tracks from an array of insanely talented artists, with some curveballs tossed into the mix just to keep you youngins on your toes (plus "Radar Love", a song everyone is born knowing). Danger Mouse (featuring Run The Jewels and Big Boi) – ‘Chase Me’ Kid Koala – ‘Was He Slow (Credit Roll Version)’ģ0. Barry White – ‘Never, Never Gone Give Ya Up’Ģ9. Golden Earring – ‘Radar Love (1973 Single Edit)’Ģ4. Focus – ‘Hocus Pocus (Original Single Version)’Ģ3. Brenda Holloway – ‘Every Little Bit Hurts’Ģ2. Sam & Dave – ‘When Something Is Wrong With My Baby’Ģ0. Listen on Spotify: Voici 29 des 30 titres entendus dans le film selon le magazine NME ( l'exception de 'Easy' de Sky Ferreira), ainsi qu'une chanson des Boards of Canada identifie dans le film par le site Tunefind. Martha and the Vandellas – ‘Nowhere To Run’ġ9. Alexis Korner – ‘Early In The Morning’ġ7. The Detroit Emeralds – ‘Baby Let Me Take You (in My Arms)’ġ5. The Commodores – ‘Easy (Single Version)’ġ4. The Beach Boys – ‘Let’s Go Away For Awhile’ġ0. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – ‘Egyptian Reggae’ĥ. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – ‘Bellbottoms’ģ.
Here's the full list of songs, via the good folks over at NME:ġ. At long last, the full track listing for Edgar Wright's Baby Driver soundtrack has been revealed, and - as expected - it's absolutely stacked with greatness.