Daughter - Home (Jon Hopkins remix)

OLD PA'S WEDNESDAY CLUB

A Movie Night

 

Daughter - Home (Jon Hopkins remix) (2013)


I watched 2 movies back to back last week, both were very watchable, although I would not say they were Oscar material.


The first one was called The Citizen and was about an Arab immigrant who won a green card in a lottery and arrived to start his new life in the United States on the 10th September 2001 (Ouch). It is well worth a watch and the only thing I will tell you is that the Good guy wins.


The second movie is called How I Live Now and starts of as if it is a Walt Disney type kids movie. I very nearly switched it of, just before a nuclear device was detonated in London. The movie is about how the kids in the movie survived. A kind of Love story too. It is just about worth a watch.


What made it stand out for me and the purpose of this post was the Soundtrack. I kept saying to Old Ma throughout the movie that I liked this Soundtrack and I must find out after who it is by. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was by none other than Jon Hopkins and there is a soundtrack album available. This would be his second album this year. His other one is called Immunity and is rather good. A track featured on our Tracks of the Week earlier this year.


Although most of the tracks on the How I Live Now are instrumental, I had to chose the track 'Home' which is a remix of the song originally on Daughter's EP The Wild Youth (2011) as it hit me right away while watching the movie with its sort of early Joy Division base.

 

Comments

C said…
Very sparse and moody, I can just imagine the impact it must have had in the context of that film! (By the way, the vocalist sounds familiar, should I perhaps know that voice?)
Old Pa's Corner said…
C - http://allthingsgomusic.com/daughter-home-jon-hopkins-remix

Here are details of the girl singer.
Anonymous said…
Both these films sound like a good afternoon's low-budget entertainment for the right mood. I'll see if I can get to watch them one day. Interesting sounds.