Wicker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Anna Meredith

• 1 Wicker Theme (From "Wicker") 03:06
• 2 Spring Willows I (From "Wicker") 00:10
• 3 Into The Woods (From "Wicker") 01:03
• 4 Pontification I (From "Wicker") 01:23
• 5 Fever Dream (From "Wicker") 01:00
• 6 I Am Here To Marry You (From "Wicker") 01:06
• 7 The Bed Is Broken (From "Wicker") 04:33
• 8 Summer Willows (From "Wicker") 00:09
• 9 The Wedding Dance (From "Wicker") 02:58
• 10 Traps (From "Wicker") 01:05
• 11 Falling In Love (From "Wicker") 02:20
• 12 Autumn Willows (From "Wicker") 00:12
• 13 Picking Sloes (From "Wicker") 00:52
• 14 Bit By A Chicken (From "Wicker") 00:23
• 15 Bottlewasher On The Roof (From "Wicker") 00:58
• 16 Needles Up! (From "Wicker") 01:35
• 17 Man Becomes Dirt (From "Wicker") 00:57
• 18 Fever Dream II (From "Wicker") 01:08
• 19 Winter Willows (From "Wicker") 00:34
• 20 Pontification II (From "Wicker") 01:13
• 21 Stir The Guts (From "Wicker") 01:28
• 22 Burn (From "Wicker") 01:59
• 23 Ashes (From "Wicker") 03:27
• 24 My Love Doesn't Require A Promise (From "Wicker") 02:36
• 25 Spring Willows II (From "Wicker") 00:08
• 26 Lusty Bakers (From "Wicker") 01:26
• 27 Escape On Cart (From "Wicker") 03:23
• 28 Falling In Love Again (From "Wicker") 03:04
• Total Runtime 44:16

Info for Wicker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Anna Meredith is releasing her original soundtrack for ‘Wicker’, the comedic fable starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård.

For the score, Meredith put her electronics aside in favour of strings and a family of recorders, from soprano to a seven-foot contra-bass. Rich Jones, Maddie Cutter and Jack Ross play strings, while Otto Hashmi and Meredith herself play the larger recorders. Meredith has tied the instruments to the film’s story, with recorders following the Wicker Husband and strings representing the villagers and their destructive influence.

“It was important to make sure I got the sound right,” Meredith says. “I wanted to write something that had a character, had an identity that felt authentic and real and natural but also a little bit distinctive and unusual.” She adds that the recorder’s pared-back sound had to carry the film “from humour to heartbreak”, a rather larger job than its primary-school reputation suggests.

Written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, adapting Ursula Wills’ short story ‘The Wicker Husband’, ‘Wicker’ follows Colman’s fisherwoman as she asks a local basketmaker, played by Peter Dinklage, to weave her a spouse. Skarsgård plays the resulting Wicker Husband, with Elizabeth Debicki, Nabhaan Rizwan, Marli Siu and Richard E. Grant also in the cast. The directors say they wanted the score foregrounded, calling Meredith’s work “propulsive, shocking, strange, and beautiful”.

The 28-track soundtrack includes ‘Wicker Theme’, ‘The Bed Is Broken’, ‘Bit By A Chicken’, ‘Man Becomes Dirt’, ‘Burn’, ‘Lusty Bakers’ and ‘Escape On Cart’. It arrives ahead of Meredith’s recently announced album ‘DARLING’, due on 12th February 2027 via Mercury KX. That record will be her first studio album since 2019’s Mercury Prize-nominated ‘FIBS’.

Anna Meredith
is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, soundtracks, electronica, installations and experimental rock.

Her CV includes being Composer in Residence at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, commissions for the First and Last night of the BBC Proms and countless performances and commissions with leading orchestras and ensembles across the globe. She has been awarded an MBE for Services to Music, Honorary Doctorates from Napier and Coventry Universities and Fellowships from the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.

Notable releases include Varmints (SAY Award winner); FIBS (shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and named Electronic Sound’s Album of the Year); ANNO (featuring Anna’s music and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons - the performance of which includes surround sound and visuals by Eleanor Meredith); Bumps Per Minute (the soundtrack to her installation project for dodgems); NUC (an album of string quartet works performed by the Ligeti Quartet listed as one of the Guardian’s Ten Best Contemporary Albums of 2023).

The Anna Meredith band live show has been described as ‘sheer exhilaration’ by the New York Times, and as ‘a stormy, ecstatic, endlessly danceable thrill to behold…’ by NPR’s Bob Boilen. They have collaborated with multiple orchestras to perform arrangements of Anna’s material for band and orchestra.

Her installation pieces include interactive works for dodgems, lifts, sleep pods and a zamboni ice clearing machine. Other recent projects include Five Telegrams (a 22-minute large-scale orchestral piece written in collaboration with Tony Award-winning visuals company 59 Productions); HandsFree and Connect It (two body percussion pieces written with choreographer David Ogle) which reached half of all primary school aged children in the UK).

Now established as a sought-after composer for film & TV, Anna has written original scores for Eighth Grade (dir. Bo Burnham, A24), Living With Yourself (dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Netflix), HELP (dir. Mark Munden, Channel 4), the BIFA-nominated The End We Start From (dir. Mahalia Belo, Paramount), TUESDAY (dir. Daina O. Pusic, A24) and WICKER (dir. Eleanor Wilson & Alex Huston-Fischer, Black Bear).

Her third studio album DARLING is out on 12 February 2027 via Mercury KX.

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