Fontaines D.C.’sGrian Chattenhasopened upabout the creation of ‘Puppet’ from the soundtrack toPeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
Themoviespin-off from the hitNetflixseries is scheduled to arrive in select cinemas on March 6, before hitting the streaming service on March 20.Cillian Murphyreturnsas the lead character Tommy Shelby in the film – you can read everything else we know about it so farhere.
Earlier this week,the soundtrack for the film was unveiled, with five new songs having been created especially for the movie.Amy Taylor ofAmyl & 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 onPeaky Blinders’ social media, Chatten has spoken to Murphy about thetrack’screation.
Cillian Murphy and Grian Chatten from Fontaines D.C. on ‘Puppet’ and writing new music for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. pic.twitter.com/VA8XqUw1Jf
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In the clip, Murphy recalledgoing to Fontaines’ intimate launch show for their 2024 album ‘Romance’, and says he rememberedthinking the music sounded like it had been written forPeaky Blinders,which led to him and director Tom Harper approaching them about the possibility of creating original music forThe Immortal Man.
Chatten replied: “It’sbeen a show all of us have been watching for a long time. We wanted tokind of dosomething that sounded inherentlyPeaky. It’s a songwriter’s dream, really.”
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Speaking about ‘Puppet’,he added: “That wasprobably theone that was the most delicate, lyrically. The vocals are so present in the mix.Literally thewrong letter at the end of the word I felt could throw things off.”
“There’sa precariousness, I think, in the verses in the music,” he continued.“It’skind of ona knife’s edge,that’swhere the tension comes from.”
Murphy has spoken about his love for Fontaines D.C. this week, tellingBBC 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’reincredible songs, so it just clicked for us.”
Elsewhere onThe Immortal Mansoundtrack,Nick Cavehas recordeda new versionof ‘Right Hand Man’,while there will be two “transformative”Massive Attackcovers handled by Chatten and Irish-Cornish band GirlInTheYear Above. Chatten will also collaborating with Irish doom-folk groupLankumon their song ‘HuntingTheWren’.
The final season ofPeaky Blindersended with head honcho Tommy Shelby riding off into the sunset after finding out his terminal braintumourwasactually theresult 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…”