The soundtrack for the teen blockbuster The Hunger Games includes two contributions from Arcade Fire. Listen to the menacing new song “Abraham’s Daughter” over at Entertainment Weekly. The other track is an orchestral piece called “Horn of Plenty”.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Win Butler said, “I tried to put myself in the headspace of how excited I’d be if this film was coming out when I was 15. I still remember hearing Radiohead’s ‘Exit Music (for a Film)’ in [Baz Luhrmann’s] Romeo + Juliet when I was that age.”
He added, “Our whole approach was to get into the world and try to create something that serves the story and the film. There’s something in the story of Abraham and Isaac that I think resonates with the themes in the film, like sacrificing children. So we made a weird, alternate-universe version of that, where it’s as if Abraham had a daughter — kind of a metaphor for [Hunger Games character] Katniss.”
The Hunger Games soundtrack is out March 20, with the movie in theaters March 23.
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