VIA PRESS RELEASE | “A pitch-perfect and at times hypnotic score.”
—Gold Derby
Lakeshore Records is set to release Nickel Boys—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in a special vinyl edition with an original score by composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario. The Oscar-nominated film features an ethereal and often dissonant score that augments the intense storyline and striking stylistic elements of the film based on Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys. The album pressed on “Metallic Gold” vinyl features a full color insert and will be available April 25.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two Black teenagers who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Florida. In breakout performances that cut to the bone, Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson play Elwood and Turner, whose close bond helps sustain their hope even as truths unfold around them at the Nickel Academy.
Nickel Boys is nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Note Somers and Alario: “Creating the music for Nickel Boys has been one of the most fulfilling creative endeavors of our lives. The way the point of view camera exists to allow the audience to not only see what the characters see, but to feel what they see, our music exists to illuminate what cannot be seen, but is felt.”
