The Bugonia soundtrack is available on vinyl from Waxwork Records. Priced at $40, it’s expected to ship in December.
Composed by Jerskin Fendrix, the 2xLP score is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl.
It’s housed in old-style tip on gatefold jackets with built in pages and artwork designed by Vasilis Marmatakis along with inserted newsprint posters.
In theaters now, Bugonia marks Fendrix’s third collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos following Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness.
“For Bugonia, Yorgos did not allow me to see the script or know anything about the film apart from the three words ‘Bees,’ ‘Basement’ & ‘Spaceship,’” says Fendrix. “All of the music is derived from my research on these three areas and seeing how much connective tissue they might have, mainly in a structural/systemic/geometric sense and in regard to some ideas about altitudes.”
In the black comedy sci-fi thriller, the high-powered CEO of a major company is kidnapped by two conspiracy obsessed young men that are convinced she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
After the pair chain her in a basement and come face-to-face with the enemy, the two sides — the tinfoil-hat basement dwellers and the steely, soulless corporate executive — soon find themselves pitched in a battle as viscerally unpredictable as it is unexpectedly moving.
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone star.
Will Tracy (The Menu) penned the script, based on the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “The sardonic, genre-bending satire takes aim at modern echo chambers and their erosion of humanity. Lanthimos’ signature ability to skew reality with absurdist humor and style belies a cynical condemnation of our self-destructive nature.”