El-P scored the new Al Capone biopic Capone, starring Tom Hardy as the titular gangster. On May 29, he’ll release his soundtrack for the film (via Milan Records). Below, listen to two new tracks from El’s score, “mama’s hurt and “this is Al that’s left” (via Rolling Stone).
Speaking with Rolling Stone, El-P said, “‘mama’s hurt’ is from one of my favorite scenes in the film. Al wanders through a violent dream of his past and it all comes to a bloody peak. This is one of the most surreal and ultimately sinister-sounding pieces in Capone.”
El also said, “I also wanted to share ‘this is Al that’s left’ because it contains elements from all of the major musical themes we created for the film woven into one more traditional instrumental form. It ends the film so it really had to be a definitive feeling emotionally for what Capone was about.”
Capone is written and directed by Josh Trank, with whom El-P worked on Fantastic Four. The new movie was released on May 12 (via Vertical Entertainment).
Read Pitchfork’s 5-10-15-20 interview “El-P on the Music That Made Him.”