“ONLY GOD KNOWS” – YOUNG FATHERS (FEAT LEATH CONGREGATIONAL CHOIR)
Big Dada
โTrainspotting, the original book is like a modern Ulysses. Itโs unsurpassed I think, and reading it is still like the โrush of ocean to the heart.โ You’re always looking for the heartbeat of a film. For Trainspotting it was Underworld’s โBorn Slippy.โ For T2 It’s Young Fathers. Their songs are my heartbeat for the film. And โOnly God Knowsโ is that rush again. The ocean. The heart.โ ย ~ Danny Boyle, January 18, 2017.
Young Fathers and the prolific novelist Irvine Welsh first met in 2015, when Welsh was making TV documentary about creativity in their mutual hometown, Edinburgh. Director Danny Boyle discovered Young Fathers shortly after their 2014 Mercury Prize win.
T2: Trainspotting is Welsh and Boyleโs recent feature-length film and sequel to Trainspotting (1996) โ both adaptations of Welshโs critically acclaimed written works, Trainspotting and Porno. 21 years later, their mutual appreciation for Young Fathers landed six tracks on the filmโs score โ โLow,โ โNo Way,โ โDare Meโ – and soundtrack โ โGet Up,โ โRain or Shineโ and โOnly God Knows.โ
Young Fathers got word on T2 features while working in the studio with Los Angeles-based producer Dave Sitek. The guys brought one of the demos back home to Edinburgh, met up with Boyle to tour the T2 film set and then finished the song with the voices of the Leith Congregational Choir, because thereโs โnothing like singing with your aunties.โ
And really thatโs when any relation to the film goes out of the window, because โOnly God Knowsโ is the most beautiful, soaring, crazy piece of punk-gospel youโll hear in 2017, like being shot out of a cannon into the greatest atheist church in the universe, like dying and being reborn without even realizing itโs happened. Because weโre all alone in the end anyway, so give yourself a chance.
Young Fathers
[Single]
(Big Dada)
Release Date: January 24, 2017
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