![]() "Think That You Might Be Wrong" by Great Lake SwimmersĪ Walk in the Woods' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is not yet available for streaming or purchase, but almost all the songs can be found around the internet to produce a makeshift soundtrack playlist while you wait, so you can get listening now."Kissed Me Like Thunder" by Friends of Lola Lord Huron is an American indie band founded by Ben Schneider, a Michigan-born visual arts major."I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)" by Dwight Yoakam."The Birds Are Singing At Night" by Lord Huron.Finally, the soundtrack also features two tracks from the film's composer, Nathan Larson. Blake Mills' "Dead End Street" is also an exclusive song on the album. ![]() Lord Huron isn't the only band that provided an original track to the Walk in the Woods soundtrack. Lord Huron, a Los Angeles based folk group, is heavily featured on the soundtrack, providing four tracks off their 2012 debut album, Lonesome Dreams, as well as one original song written specifically for A Walk in the Woods, titled "The Birds are Singing at Night." You can listen to one of the songs, "She Lit a Fire," here: It's unclear why the month-long delay exists between the film's theatrical release and the release of the soundtrack, but no doubt the tracks will be worth the wait for fans of both the film and folk rock band Lord Huron. 25, when it'll be released on CD via Amazon. 2, but the soundtrack won't be available for purchase until Sept. The movie, based on the best-selling memoir by Bill Bryson, hit theaters on Wed., Sept. The film's track listing, however, is difficult to find, but, don't worry, here's where to get the Walk In The Woods soundtrack. At 2,180 miles, the Appalachian Trail deserves one hell of a soundtrack, and A Walk In The Woods delivers. A Walk In The Woods, starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, follows two old friends who decide to reunite to attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail. While it's a pleasant enough listen, the entire album falls short of the potential opulence hinted at by its best tracks.Every good walk needs a good soundtrack (at least, that's what they tell me). Unfortunately, the album is heavier on Western atmosphere and manicured harmonies than it is inspired hooks. ![]() While Lonesome Dreams paints its sound in broad, thoughtful strokes, it's at its best when the arrangements meet up with hooks. Rarely do the two worlds meet in the middle as well as they do on "Time to Run," though mellower tracks like "Ghost on the Shore" and "In the Wind" create more space for the album's softer intricacies. ![]() Schneider's affected vocals muddy the waters some as well, taking down some of the album's plentiful bright melodies with a heavy mountain-man accent. Somewhere between the feral experimentation of freak folk, the sunny polyrhythms, and the obligatory references to rocks and trees that come with soul-searching folk-informed indie rock like this, Lord Huron either sound like brilliantly happy tropical indie rock (as on "The Man Who Lives Forever") or under-produced young country (as with the hokey title track). Being of several minds like this is the crux of Lonesome Dreams. The song is beyond catchy and beyond happy, bounding along ecstatically between huge choruses, friendly verses, and experimental found sound breakdowns. However, as soon as the song fades out, "Time to Run" begins with watery field recordings of bells and washy synth tones before bursting into a jubilant slice of acoustic pop owing equal parts to Animal Collective's happy-go-lucky freaked sounds and Paul Simon's Afro-pop-borrowing optimism. The searching harmonies and overblown pondering of nature don't help. ![]() As well constructed as the song is, it follows so closely the open-ended indie folk style of Fleet Foxes, My Morning Jacket, and the like that it comes off as a pretty blatant ripoff and little else. The album opens with "Ends of the Earth," a jaunty and triumphant song filled with imagery of rivers, mountains, and arid desertscapes. The wide-open pastoral feel of the album seems designed to calm the ongoing argument happening with Schneider's songwriting sensibilities, which seem conflicted between jubilant indie pop wanderlust and stoic traditionally structured Americana. Following two low-profile EPs, Lonesome Dreams is the debut from Michigan-born/Los Angeles-based sound sculptor Ben Schneider and his band Lord Huron. ![]()
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