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Father Mother Sister Brother (Original Music From The Film)

JIM JARMUSCH & ANIKA

Released 14 November 2025

Sacred Bones Records

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An austere and quietly subversive soundtrack where atmosphere, intuition and voice fold an emotional envelope around family, memory and human frailty.

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Jim Jarmusch has long treated music as an essential narrative force within his films, often composing or co creating soundtracks that blur the line between score and autonomous work. Like David Lynch with Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks) or Wim Wenders with Ry Cooder (Paris, Texas), Jarmusch approaches sound as mood-making and meaning, rather than as decoration. Anika, born Annika Henderson, is a hybrid artist whose work spans experimental electronics post punk dub and spoken word, marked by a confrontational intimacy and a voice that recalls Nico in its detached gravity. Their collaboration on Father Mother Sister Brother, winner of the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, brings together two artists united by restraint curiosity and a refusal to over explain.

The music for Father Mother Sister Brother functions less as a score than as an atmospheric presence. Built from improvisation texture and reduction, it inhabits the spaces that beyond the movie's dialogue, gestures and silences. 

Much of the album emerges from loosely structured improvisations shaped into brief instrumental vignettes. Electric guitars are treated electronically and distant, Wurlitzer chords drift without resolution. Rhythms are subdued - suggested rather than highlighted.

Anika’s voice appears sparingly, its cool intimacy carrying an emotional weight disproportionate to its frequency. The covers of These Days (Jackson Browne) and Spooky (Bubby Buie & others / Dusty Springfield) stand apart, their clarity (and familiarity) in stark contrast to the remainder, all instrumental pieces. Consequently, they become emotional anchors, redefined by their newly-acquired minimalism and restraint.

This music neither explains nor comforts, but it observes. Like the film itself, it is funny tender and quietly unsparing.

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