AMBIENT ELECTRONIC FEATURE FILM SCORE OUT NOW ON BOILED RECORDS
LISTEN TO TWO CARES DUE NONE OST HERE
“The sort of deep-space cosmic-rock odyssey that they’ll be blasting on the Orion” - Pitchfork
“Heady space odyssey full of groovy motorik rhythms and reverb-soaked hooks” - Rolling Stone
“Stately yet psychedelic” - Stereogum
“The musical equivalent of colouring outside the lines” - CBC Music
Photo: Colin Medley // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
Known for its transportive works in sound and vision, Toronto psych trio Absolutely Free has today surprise released its original soundtrack recording for the art-house film Two Cares Due None. The gorgeously haunting and masterfully responsive score distills the film’s dramatic landscapes with suspenseful notes of magic-realism and minimalism. Its stirring, mysterious instrumental compositions range from reflective ambience to polyrhythmic electronic music, bringing to mind the iconic film scores of John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream, Cliff Martinez, and Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury. Two Cares Due None marks the band’s first foray into feature-length composition, after previously scoring short films by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada.
LISTEN TO TWO CARES DUE NONE OST HERE
“The film entranced us into a distinct musical universe,” says Absolutely Free. “We found ourselves indulging mood over melody, exploring the periphery of what we have created live and on record up to this point.”
"Writing started in Iceland, where I travelled to be near the shoot,” recounts band member Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg. “The filmmakers made some friends and one of them had the keys to a derelict church in the old town in Blönduós. I spent a lot of time there alone, playing a beautiful pipe organ and overlooking the ocean waves - but never after dark."
The feature film was independently produced by visual artists Chris Boni and Melissa Fisher-Rozenberg, shot on location in Iceland, Italy, and Canada. Two Cares Due None explores the ways different cultures place value on objects as commonplace Icelandic artifacts gain exemplary worth in Canada’s art world and Italy’s black market. Absolutely Free – whose previous releases provide uniquely prismatic views of the polarized ideologies that exist in our culture – intuits these concepts with incredible fluidity, adorning the imagery in distinctive, otherworldly sound.
WATCH TWO CARES DUE NONE FEATURE FILM
Two Cares Due None OST follows Absolutely Free’s 2019 EP Geneva Freeport, an absurd fantasy about taking a holiday to one of the world’s most notorious high security art storage facilities, fittingly “bringing to question the process of ascribing economic value to cultural artifacts.” In contrast to the meditative ambience of Two Cares Due None, the EP (which features Meg Remy of U.S. Girls on “Currency” and mixing by Sandro Perri) has been celebrated for its rhythmic, melodic urgency and “motorik-driven psychedelia” (FADER), a retro-synthetic amalgam of Talking Heads, The Clash, Terry Riley, and William Onyeabor.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “CURRENCY” (FT. U.S. GIRLS)
Two Cares Due None OST is the first full-length release since Absolutely Free’s Polaris Music Prize nominated self-titled debut album of 2014. A long-awaited official sophomore studio album has been hinted at since the Jorge Elbrecht-produced single “Still Life” surfaced in 2018. Stay tuned for more.
TWO CARES DUE NONE TRACKLIST
1. Begins
2. Two Cares Due None
3. Work Theme 1
4. Country Drive + Lunch
5. Travelling
6. Contemplating
7. The Office / The Community
8. Full Sweep
9. Take One
10. Post Nightmare
11. Bubble Wrap
12. First Letter
13. “The Funeral’ Opening
14. Procession
15. Packing Up
Absolutely Free is:
Michael Claxton
Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg
Matthew King