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The instrumental opening moves from the disquiet of the forest and the fragile order of a campout toward increasingly unstable, bodily dread. The vocal half draws on wilderness imagery, hunger, contagion, and the collapse of childhood innocence, while shifting between the boys’ initial group energy and the terror that divides them. It is a mood-driven playlist, not music from an adaptation of the novel.
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20 songs
1
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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Polymorphia
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Te Deum - Hymne an den Heiligen Daniel - Polymorphia
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Lontano
György Ligeti · Ligeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères & San Francisco Polyphony
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Lipstick To Void
Mica Levi · Under the Skin
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Allegro barbaro, BB 63, Sz. 49
Béla Bartók · Bartók: Complete Solo Piano Works
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The righteous wrath of an honorable man
Colin Stetson · New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
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Run Through The Jungle
Creedence Clearwater Revival · Cosmo's Factory
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8
A Forest
The Cure · Seventeen Seconds
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Wolf Like Me
TV On The Radio · Return To Cookie Mountain
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The Kids Aren't Alright
The Offspring · Americana
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The Rake's Song
The Decemberists · Hazards Of Love
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Black River Killer
Blitzen Trapper · Furr
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13
The End
The Doors · The Doors
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14
Hunger Strike
Temple Of The Dog · Temple Of The Dog
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I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Remastered 2009
The Beatles · Abbey Road (Remastered 2009)
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The Wretched
Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile
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Romanian Folk Dances for Piano, Sz. 56 (Arr. Székely for Violin & Piano): No. 1, Joc cu bâta "Stick Dance"
Béla Bartók · Bartók: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Romanian Folk Dances; Rhapsody No. 1
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18
A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (A)
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Miste
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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