Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten has opened up about the creation of ‘Puppet’ from the soundtrack to Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
The movie spin-off from the hit Netflix series is scheduled to arrive in select cinemas on March 6, before hitting the streaming service on March 20. Cillian Murphy returns as the lead character Tommy Shelby in the film – you can read everything else we know about it so far here.
Earlier this week, the soundtrack for the film was unveiled, with five new songs having been created especially for the movie. Amy Taylor of Amyl & the Sniffers and Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, and Tom Coll from Fontaines D.C. have all contributed songs to the soundtrack, and it will drop on March 6.
The first single to be released from the soundtrack is Chatten’s ‘Puppet’, which he wrote for the film. In a new clip shared on Peaky Blinders’ social media, Chatten has spoken to Murphy about the track’s creation.
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In the clip, Murphy recalled going to Fontaines’ intimate launch show for their 2024 album ‘Romance’, and says he remembered thinking the music sounded like it had been written for Peaky Blinders, which led to him and director Tom Harper approaching them about the possibility of creating original music for The Immortal Man.
Chatten replied: “It’s been a show all of us have been watching for a long time. We wanted to kind of do something that sounded inherently Peaky. It’s a songwriter’s dream, really.”
Speaking about ‘Puppet’, he added: “That was probably the one that was the most delicate, lyrically. The vocals are so present in the mix. Literally the wrong letter at the end of the word I felt could throw things off.”
“There’s a precariousness, I think, in the verses in the music,” he continued. “It’s kind of on a knife’s edge, that’s where the tension comes from.”
Murphy has spoken about his love for Fontaines D.C. this week, telling BBC Radio 1: “There’s certain music that just lends itself to Peaky Blinders … the Fontaines music seems to work, it has that outlaw quality, that dangerous quality …. they’re incredible songs, so it just clicked for us.”
Elsewhere on The Immortal Man soundtrack, Nick Cave has recorded a new version of ‘Right Hand Man’, while there will be two “transformative” Massive Attack covers handled by Chatten and Irish-Cornish band Girl In The Year Above. Chatten will also collaborating with Irish doom-folk group Lankum on their song ‘Hunting The Wren’.
The final season of Peaky Blinders ended with head honcho Tommy Shelby riding off into the sunset after finding out his terminal brain tumour was actually the result of a malicious false diagnosis orchestrated by one of his many enemies.
A synopsis for the Peaky Blinders film has been released, teasing: “Synopsis: Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet.
“With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…”
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