As you would expect the soundtrack is central to the film: Personally selected by director Shane Meadows, the music provides counterpoints between the great pastures of the Peak District, and the deranged scenes of bloody retribution. The twisted folk of (Smog) and The Earlies is interspersed with the eerie Spaghetti Western feel of Calexico’s instrumental tracks and unsettled calm of Aphex Twin’s ‘Nannou 2’, while heartfelt singer/songwriter narrative songs from Adem, Gravenhurst and Clayhill lend an emotional gravity. Laurent Garnier’s fantastically fucked-up, rhythmic-drone centrepiece ‘Forgotten Thoughts’ accompanies the film’s ‘acid scene’ as the vigilante lead character, Richard, spikes his nemeses’ tea kettle with a lethal psychotropic cocktail... carnage ensues. M. Ward’s cracked and haunting ‘Dead Man’ could not be more fitting.

Like the acclaimed Morvern Callar OST soundtrack released on Warp in 2002, the Dead Man’s Shoes soundtrack stands apart from the film as a thoroughly enjoyable and beautifully sequenced collection of songs that hang together with unusual resonance.

Dead Man’s Shoes OST, WarpCD126, released 4th October 2004.

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1. (Smog) 'Vessel In Vain'
2. Calexico 'Untitled II'
3. Calexico 'Untitled III'
4. Adem 'Statued'
5. Calexico 'Ritual Road Map'
6. Laurent Garnier 'Forgotten Thoughts'
7. The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'
8. Richard Hawley 'Steel 2'
9. Clayhill 'Afterlight'
10. Calexico 'Crooked Road'
11. Lucky Dragons 'Heartbreaker'
12. Gravenhurst 'The Diver'
13. Cul De Sac 'I Remember Nothing More'
14. P.G. Six 'Fallen Leaves'
15. ABBC 'Pluis Sans Nuages'
16. Aphex Twin 'Nannou 2'
17. M. Ward 'Dead Man'
18. DM & Jemini 'The Only One'

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