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Young Fathers’ contribution the ‘Trainspotting 2’ soundtrack is to be released as a single by their label Big Dada. Check it out below
‘Only God Knows’, which also features Leith Congregational Choir, has been hailed by the film’s director Danny Boyle as the sequel’s equivalent to Underworld’s ‘Born Slippy’. Boyle said: “Trainspotting, the original book is like a modern Ulysses. It’s unsurpassed I think, and reading it is still like the ‘rush of ocean to the heart’. You're always looking for the heartbeat of a film. For Trainspotting it was Underworld's ‘Born Slippy’. For T2 It's Young Fathers. Their songs are my heartbeat for the film. And ‘Only God Knows’ is that rush again. The ocean. The heart.”
After Gigwise exclusively revealed the band would be included on the soundtrack back in September, we can confirm that the film score features six Young Fathers tunes, including ‘Low, No Way, Dare Me’, ‘Get Up’ and ‘Rain or Shine’.
Young Fathers met Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh in 2015 when Welsh made a documentary about creative endeavours in their mutual hometown Edinburgh, while Boyle had first encountered them after their Mercury Prize victory a year earlier.
Produced in the studio with Los Angeles-based producer Dave Sitek, the band said they included the voices of the Leith Congregational Choir on ‘Only God Knows’ because there’s “nothing like singing with your aunties.”
The single is released on 7” single and digital formats on January 27. Young Fathers play Wonderfruit Festival, Chonburi, Pattaya, Thailand - 17th Feb 2017
