Michael Ferentino and Andres Karu, childhood friends and partners going way back to their first band, composed and produced this soundtrack at Doghaus Studios, which they co-own. The dialogue tracks obviously come from the actors in the movie. The score portions were written by Mikael Jorgenson and Tom Missner and performed by "Auto vs. Pedestrian" with their permission. But, the lion's share of this album was written, performed and produced by Ferentino and Karu.

Although several different band names are given credit for the songs performed, all of them are actually songs from the various bands Ferentino and Karu founded over the past several years. "Love In Reverse" or "Amazing Meet Project" fans will recognize this right away, despite the unfamiliar band names. The guys didn't think it would look to good if all the songs were performed by the same band.

Track one is a short blip of dialogue followed by film score on track two called "Walker Road," a very spacey, repetitive sounding instrumental as are most of the score portions of the album. The first song, "Stupid Of Me," was released by "Amazing Meet Project" on their debut album, which was one of the most recent projects for the duo of Ferentino and Karu. This song's position and lyrics appear to fit right in with the action in the film.

(NOTE: All of the songs except the ones written specifically for the soundtrack have been reviewed previously in AMZ. Just do a Search on the band name.)

Another bit of dialogue is followed by "Life Is Fun," track five, released a few years ago during the band's stint as "Love In Reverse." Most of the songs on this soundtrack are the dark ones from the duo's past bands. As you listen to the soundtrack you'll figure out why everything is so dark. "Monkey Body Slam (elements)" is an instrumental, but much different from the score, and is performed by "Amazing Meet Project."

The next two songs, "Asbury Park" and "Pariah" are both part of the sound score performed by "Auto vs. Pedestrian." These songs carry the same repetitious undertone with a lot of synth and spacey sounds on top of it. Actually, the score portions sound almost, but not quite, the same throughout the album, but with various instruments added here and there to distinguish them.

Track nine, "For What It's Worth," is WAY heavy on the fuzz bass mixed with several types of percussion and sung like a dirge. Written and produced by Ferentino and Karu, and performed by "The Stereo Mother-Fuckers" (including Michael Ferentino on vocals), is kind of hard to describe other than different from any of the previous songs and extremely dark sounding. Next up is "Dieyousonofawhore," an instrumental written and performed by Ferentino and Karu. It also runs along the lines of what I would call spacey, but it's much, much darker and much shorter than the previous instrumentals by "Auto vs. Pedestrian."

More dialogue precedes the next song as the characters become involved in a murder. Then "Monkey Boy Slam" returns again, this time with the vocals, by "Amazing Meet Project." The music is more upbeat, but the lyrics are still dark. A lot of acoustic guitar in the "AMP" songs give them a very different flavor than the rest of the songs on the album. With "Morobla" and "Whipporwill" we're back to the score performed by "Auto vs. Pedestrian." The songs sound about the same as the previous ones, but then actual musical score is to back up the action, not distract from it. The tolling of a bell in "Whipporwill" adds more drama to what could have become a rather boring piece of music. It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"Sea Monkey Do," written and performed by Michael Ferentino, is a strange little tune driven by percussion and bass, with a vocal in the middle that is ethereal and dark at the same time. The lyrics are rather strange but fit the mood of the story. "Life In Outer Space" is another percussion and synth driven number by "The Stereo Mother-Fuckers." Once the vocal starts an acoustic guitar joins in and again there's a dirge-like quality to the melody. "You're on your own now/ You're on your own now . . ." a lyric that repeats towards the end, is very eerie and has different accompaniment. Even with the melancholy tone it's a very interesting song.

The last bit of dialogue is spoken over "Pomp," a song written by Ferentino and Karu and performed by "Dog," the band that got them signed to Reprise Records several years ago. On this track, the dialogue is what's important, and with a last toll of the bell, the album is over.

This soundtrack isn't for everyone. It's not a bunch of happy singles and the story has been compared to "Lord of the Flies." Just from the dialogue on the album, this is pretty heavy duty subject matter. But, if you're looking for something different than the average, run-of-the-mill Soundtrack, you should check this one out.