Searchlight Pictures and Hollywood Records are thrilled to release The Roses (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) featuring an emotionally resonant score from Emmy-winning composer Theodore Shapiro.The highly anticipated film arrives in theaters August 29.
Speaking about his approach, Shapiro shares: "The score to The Roses is based around two simple themes— one of them where the two notes of a chord come together, and one where they drift apart, following the trajectory of Theo and Ivy's marriage. The sounds of the score are unstable - steel drums, guitars with extreme chorus effects, and ondes martenot - all of them unstable in pitch and reflecting the wobbly foundations of the marriage."
Adding even more magic, music icon Susanna Hoffs lends her voice to two brand-new duets: "Happy Together" with Rufus Wainwright, and "Love Hurts" with Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats and Bonny Light Horseman.