Labor Day

Labor Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2013 film of the same name directed by Jason Reitman. The film's original score is composed by Rolfe Kent who previously composed for Reitman's Thank You for Smoking (2005), Up in the Air (2009) and Young Adult (2011). The score album was released by Warner Bros. Records on December 17, 2013 digitally followed by a CD release on January 28, 2014. The musical score also accompanies the guitar pieces by Andrés Segovia and Shin-Ichi Fukuda, in addition to the songs "I'm Going Home" from Arlo Guthrie's studio album Alice's Restaurant (1967) and Here Before" from Vashti Bunyan's Lookaftering (2005). "Wings" from Birdy and "Take Us Alive" from Other Lives were featured in the promotional trailers. The music received positive response from critics. Development In June 2012, Kent was recruited to score music for Labor Day, who described it as an "extremely intense drama" Kent recalled that, "there was a moment where we were talking about certain scenes with the idea that there’d be crickets in the background" and he experimented with cricket sounds using the keyboard that slowed down cricket choir. Some of the acoustic instruments such as guitar and charango, were incorporated with a number of plucked instruments being processed such a way that create the organic washes, which are carefully structured to flow along with the film.