"Pitchfork: Are you working on anything else, besides the very beginnings of a new album?
WB: Not really. We finished that movie music, I'm not sure when the film's coming out, the Richard Kelly film, which was interesting.
Pitchfork: Wait a second! You did end up contributing music to The Box!?
WB: Yeah. So that will be out at some point.
Pitchfork: Did you write the entire score?
WB: Yes, me, Régine, and Owen [Pallett] from Final Fantasy. It's kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It's instrumental music. No songs. It's interesting. We didn't really think we were going to do the whole thing, and then it just kind of was easier once we got in. It was like, "Oh well, we'll just keep going." It has so much to do with the editing, and your job is just to help the director. It's a very different experience.
Pitchfork: What attracted you to this project?
WB: I could really imagine what he wanted for the music. It's based on a "Twilight Zone" episode set in the 70s. The guy works at NASA. It's got this kind of sci-fi, kind of Alfred Hitchcock feel. Those Hitchcock scores are some of my favorite movie music. We have a Mellotron, and since it's the 70s, it really seemed to fit. It was just really easy to imagine the type of music that would help the movie. It was a very ego-less project. The goal was to kind of bang some music out and not be, like, slitting our wrists over if the tambourine is too loud. That was a good experiment."
The bastard denied this way back when. I was just thinking on The Box, since Jimmy Marsden was on my brain. This is awesome news. I love Final Fantasy too, so the meeting of these groups of people and it's result being described as "Hitchcocky" is like ear porn already..
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