Who did music for Everything Everywhere All at Once?

André 3000, Mitski, David Byrne, Moses Sumney and more acts feature on the soundtrack for the new A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Son Lux have scored the sci-fi action film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film is released in the US on March 25 (UK date TBA), while the soundtrack lands on April 8.

Mitski and Byrne duet on a song called ‘This Is A Life’, while André 3000 plays flute across the record. Other contributions come from Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, Nina Moffitt, Chris Pattishall, Rob Moose, yMusic, Surrija, and actor Stephanie Hsu.

Son Lux shared a statement about their work on the project: “Even though we knew from the moment Daniels asked us to score this film that it would push us in new and unexpected directions, we couldn’t have predicted how much we’d learn from the project.

“What emerged was our most ambitious undertaking to date, over two years in the making, resulting in two hours of new music. It was an opportunity for us to play, to infuse humour into our work, and to experiment from and beyond our various musical backgrounds.”

Everything Everywhere All At Once original soundtrack:

01. ‘This Is A Life’ (Extended) [ft. Mitski and David Byrne]
02. ‘Wang Family Portrait’
03. ‘Very Busy’
04. ‘Vvvery Busy’
05. ‘What Are You Thinking About?’
06. ‘What A Fast Elevator!’
07. ‘Switch Shoes To The Wrong Feet’
08. ‘Nothing Could Possibly Matter More’
09. ‘A Choice’
10. ‘Chapstick’
11. ‘The Fanny Pack’
12. ‘Jobu Tupaki’
13. ‘The Alphaverse’
14. ‘The Mission’ [ft. Nina Moffitt]
15. ‘Deirdre Fight’
16. ‘Waymond Cries’
17. ‘I Love You Kung Fu’
18. ‘My Life Without You’ [ft. André Benjamin]
19. ‘The Story Of Jobu’ [ft. Nina Moffitt]
20. ‘Rendezvous At The Premiere’
21. ‘It’s You… Juju Toobootie’ [ft. Chris Pattishall and Nina Moffitt]
22. ‘Everything Bagel’
23. ‘You’re Living Your Worst You’
24. ‘The Boxcutter’ [ft. André Benjamin]
25. ‘Send Every Available Jumper’
26. ‘Opera Fight’ [ft. Surrija and yMusic]
27. ‘Dog Fight’ [ft. André Benjamin]
28. ‘Drummer Fight’
29. ‘Plug Fight’
30. ‘Pinky Fight’ [ft. André Benjamin]
31. ‘I Have Been Watching’ [ft. Rob Moose and Nina Moffitt]
32. ‘Somewhere Out There In All That Noise’
33. ‘Jobu Sees All’
34. ‘The Temple’
35. ‘Evelyn Everywhere’
36. ‘Evelyn All At Once’
37. ‘This Is How I Fight’
38. ‘In Another Life’
39. ‘It All Just Goes Away’
40. ‘Clair de Lune’ (Pied au Piano) [ft. Chris Pattishall]
41. ‘Come Recover’ (Empathy Fight)
42. ‘Your Day Will Come’ (Empathy Fight)
43. ‘Let Me Go’
44. ‘Specks of Time’
45. ‘This Is A Life’ [ft. Mitski and David Byrne]
46. ‘Fence’ [ft. Moses Sumney]
47. ‘Now We’re Cookin’’ [ft. Randy Newman]
48. ‘Sucked Into A Bagel’ [ft. Stephanie Hsu]
49. ‘I Love You’

André 3000 appeared recently in an advert with Zendaya that aired at this year’s Super Bowl.

How Son Lux Crafted a Maximalist Soundtrack for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

The L.A.-based band talks experimenting with new instruments and collaborating with everyone from André 3000 to David Byrne to match the film's wildly shifting tones

When the mind bending sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once was met with a sweeping applause at its South by Southwest premiere, it left L.A.-based band Son Lux — Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang — in tears. The trio are credited with creating the 49-track maximalist film score that takes audiences on a journey through a slew of wacky worlds.

The martial arts-packed fantasy stars acclaimed actress Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, a woman who is unexpectedly thrown into the multiverse and forced to reckon with who she could have been had she done life differently. In a smorgasbord of universes where one moment people have hotdogs for fingers and the next an animatronic raccoon is belting out melodies there are seemingly no limits.

That wild unpredictability is something co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the Daniels, are celebrated for. (See a similarly unconventional approach in their earlier work, including Swiss Army Man and Lil Jon’s “Turn Down For What” music video.) So, the directing duo tasked Son Lux with creating music that could assist in establishing the identity of each of the many universes in their film. In the full interview below, the band describes how they conquered what initially felt like an impossible feat.

“They wanted all these seemingly unrelated things to come together and cohere into something that was unified and had emotional weight,” guitarist Bhatia said. “The same way that you hear two seconds of a song and you know who the artist is, they wanted to use that to mark each universe and have it feel like somebody’s changing channels on a radio when you’re moving through them.”

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Chang, the band’s drummer, described the experience as feeling like they were scoring five different films and having to make it feel like one. Throughout the soundtrack, which is as gritty and menacing as it is sweet and playful, the band samples instruments unfamiliar to them, like Chinese paigu drums and gongs.

“It’s a lot of combining and building and things spinning out of control, and the noise of the uncertainty in the universe,” Bhatia explained. “There’s an aspect of it that’s just like the universe being the sum of its parts and then there’s another aspect of it that’s the feeling of remedy or overload that we as people have when we try to comprehend what the full multiverse is.”

Although Daniels gave the band some direction, they also asked them to create freely. One of their most experimental sessions was with OutKast’s André 3000, who brought a collection of custom-made cedar flutes with him. They were modeled after clay Mayan flutes, with each tuned differently.

“It actually gave us ways to be like, ‘This sound grates against the tuning in a way that will push the feeling of the music outward,’ ” Bhatia explained. “It tonally expanded the palette of what we created for this film, and it’s all over the score because of that.”

The band also tapped artists like David Byrne, Mitski, Moses Sumney, and Randy Newman to contribute to the melodic themes heard throughout the film.

The Everything Everywhere All at Once soundtrack is currently available for streaming on all major platforms and the film is now playing exclusively in theaters.

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Mitski and David Byrne appear together on "This Is A Life," the first single from Son Lux's soundtrack to new A24 movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. You can hear what the three artists cooked up together below. "This Is A Life" is just one track on the massive, 49-song soundtrack to the upcoming movie.

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