Away We Go Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

iTunes Review

It’s quite refreshing to come across this Alexi Murdoch-monopolized score to Away We Go, an indie-toned film about a couple traveling across the United States in search of the ideal place to make a home and raise a family. Much like 1970s films Harold and Maude where Cat Stevens provides the aural backdrop, and Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid scored by Bob Dylan — and similar to the way Leonard Cohen’s songs accompanied McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Away We Go uses the beautifully melancholic musings of Murdoch to emphasize the strong and intimate relationship between the story’s two main characters. “All My Days” opens with the haunting presence of Nick Drake’s ghost as Murdoch picks an acoustic guitar over earthy cello drones, ambient strings and his own somberly breathy voice inflecting lightly in a slightly deluded Scottish accent. The pensive and chorus-free “Blue Mind” slowly gathers momentum as old wooden sounding instruments are increasingly layered with each passing verse. Classic tunes by George Harrison, the Stranglers, Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground help break up the austere timbre.