''Asteroid City (Original Soundtrack)'' is the compilation soundtrack album for the 2023 film ''

Asteroid City ''Asteroid City'' is an upcoming American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson. The cast has been described as being "larger than most other Anderson films that are ensemble in nature." It is set to be rel ...

'', by

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. It was digitally published by

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on June 23, 2023, the same day as the film's theatrical release in the United States.

Composition

'' takes place in an Arizona desert town in 1955, and its soundtrack contains 17

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songs that were originally recorded and released during that time period. Music supervisor

Randall Poster Randall Poster is an American music supervisor and a long-term collaborator with Wes Anderson. He worked on the films ''Skyfall'' (2012), ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2013), ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014), a ...

stated that "Wes ndersonand I had so much fun putting the film's music together... For ''Asteroid City'', we had been 'hunting and gathering' for a year before shooting began." The soundtrack also includes six original songs by

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and two original songs by

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frontman

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—both of whom had previously been featured on the

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of Anderson's ''

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''—and

Richard Hawley Richard Willis Hawley (born 17 January 1967) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. After his first band Treebound Story (formed while he was still at school) broke up, Hawley found success as a member of Britpop band Longp ...

Release

On June 20, 2023, three days before the soundtrack's release, Cocker released his original song for the film, "Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)", which was co-written with Hawley and Anderson. On June 22, Cocker and Hawley performed at an ''Asteroid City'' immersive exhibition in London, playing "Dear Alien" and a second song they wrote for the film, "You Can't Wake Up If You Don't Fall Asleep". A special vinyl edition of the soundtrack was made available exclusively at the exhibition, limited to 1,000 copies. A two-disc vinyl edition of the soundtrack was released on November 24, 2023.

Accolades

In December 2023, the song "Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)" was shortlisted for

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at the

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Track listing

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and

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mistakenly named track 3 as "

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". The song that actually plays is " Island of Dreams", as listed in the

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press release.

Release history

Notes

References

External links

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