Music Cave and Bryce Desner (The National) unite for the trail of the movie Train Dreams’ When we started thinking about making a song for the movie, Nick looked like the perfect artist for that, “said director Clint Bentleypor

Nick Cave and Bryce Dessnerfrom The Nationalthey joined to create the title track of the movie Train Dreamswhich will be released by Netflix. The music, which you can listen to in a passage below, brings the vocals of Cave accompanied by the melancholy piano of Discharge. The duo co-wrote the track and produced it together with LUIS ALMAU. Discharge also composed the movie’s soundtrack, marking his second collaboration with the director Clint Bentley (They had already worked together in Jockey2021).

Train Dreams back Joel Edgerton in the role of a rail worker and also has Felicity Jones and William H. Macyin the cast. The film, adapted from the soap opera Denis Johnsonreleased in 2011, hits theaters on November 7 and will be available on the streaming platform on November 21. The soundtrack will be digitally released on November 7 and vinyl on November 14.

“When we started thinking about creating a song for the movie, Nick It seemed the perfect artist for that, ”said the director Clint Bentley in a statement. “It turns out that Train Dreams It’s one of his favorite books, but he initially feared no time to do something because he was preparing to go on tour. Then he watched the movie and was inspired to write something, and everything fitted very quickly. ”

Bentley He said he was “impressed” with the track, but admitted that he also felt “a little overloaded” for the situation. “I’ve been a fan of him for so long, and there I was, not only having a wonderful conversation about life and art, but he was also reading the lyrics he was writing to a movie I did,” he said Bentley. “It was a really special moment.”

He added that the collaboration between Cave and Discharge It was very natural. “Both were very artistically open during the process,” he said. “The piano music that Bryce created as the base of the song seems an extension of the beautiful soundtrack he made, and then the letters of Nick simply arise organically from this. Everything sounds so natural and cohesive, thanks to the collaboration they found. ”

At the moment, Cave is on tour with the Bad Seeds abroad; He recently ended his tour of North America in the past spring, which included a stop at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in April. The band released their latest album, Wild Godin 2024.

This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Angie Martoccio on August 14, 2025, and can be seen here.

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