Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2014 film Inherent Vice by Paul Thomas Anderson. It features an original score composed by Jonny Greenwood, along with music by Can, the Marketts, Minnie Riperton, Kyu Sakamoto, Neil Young, Les Baxter and Chuck Jackson. "Spooks" was released as a single on December 9, 2014. Nonesuch Records released the soundtrack through ITunes on December 15, and a wide release, the following day. Background The score Greenwood's third collaboration with Anderson following There Will Be Blood (2007) and The Master (2012). When Greenwood read the script, it consisted of all the stuff in the book about the arpanet (the first ever internet computer) hence came up with more electronic stuffs that sounded like it is coming from the computer. However, Greenwood decided to implement orchestral ideas in the score. The recording held on early-December 2013 and continued till February 2014. The score was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by Clio Gould and conducted by Robert Ziegler. Apart from Greenwood's score, the albums include music from the late 1960s and 1970s. Some of the contributions from Can, the Marketts, Minnie Riperton, Kyu Sakamoto, Neil Young, Les Baxter and Chuck Jackson were included in the soundtrack, but other artists whose songs not included in the album—the Tornados, the Cascades, the Association, Jack Scott, Bob Irwin, Frank Comstock among others—were featured in the film. IndieWire released the track list featured in the film, after the New York Film Festival premiere on October 4. The soundtrack features a version of an unreleased track by Greenwood's band Radiohead, "Spooks". Greenwood said Radiohead's version was "a half-idea we never made work live", describing it as a pastiche of the Pixies and surf music. For Inherent Vice, Greenwood reworked it with performances by Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass, and Joanna Newsom provided spoken word.