Electric Youth — Austin Garrick and Bronwyn Griffin — are back with a great new song, “Love In Slow Motion.” It’s the lead single off their upcoming soundtrack to the film North of Normal, which had a 2022 Toronto International Film Festival premiere and saw a wider release last year (it’s streaming now on Paramount Plus). You might recognize the song, because a different version appeared as a collaboration between Sally Shapiro and the duo on the former’s 2022 comeback album, Sad Cities. This version of “Love” kicks off with a gorgeous piano turn and Griffin’s characteristically enchanting vocals, before a captivating, full arrangement of electronics and a rhythm section enter to punctuate the unmistakably pure emotion. The album is out next week via Milan Records. (A full Vehlinggo review is forthcoming.) [UPDATE: Review is here.]
About North of Normal and the Soundtrack
North of Normal — directed by Carly Stone (The New Romantic) and based on the 2014 memoir by Cea Sunrise Person — is about a teenage Cea navigating the world after being raised in one of those off-the-grid, counterculture families. As the press release puts it: Raised in the wilderness by her free-spirited mother and an unconventional family, Cea must navigate the clash between the ideals of her upbringing and the reality of a world she’s never truly been part of, upon venturing into mainstream society. The film stars Sarah Gadon (Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy/Michael Mann’s Ferrari), Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty), James D’Arcy (Oppenheimer, The Avengers, Dunkirk) and Amanda Fix (Daisy Jones & The Six).
About North of Normal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
On the Toronto-based couple’s first released soundtrack since 2021’s Come True, Electric Youth provide a meaningful and compelling set of score cues and songs that complement the film perfectly. (I’ll have a full review next week, but it is a stunner, as you’d imagine. They utilize everything from symphonic strings to Sakamoto-esque synthery, along with their classic palette and points in between.) Tracks with an asterisk below are songs that feature Griffin’s vox.
Tracklist
- Rule Number One
- Final Goodbye
- Theme from North of Normal
- Running Away
- Love in Slow Motion*
- How Long*
- Choose Me
- Cea and Tiffany Hang Out
- Karl’s Goodbye
- Paris Snowglobe Flashback
- I Could Model
- North of Normal
- Last Goodbye*
- The City
- Innocence (From Innerworld, originally)*
- End Credits from North of Normal
The Electric Youth anthology from Vehlinggo Books is forthcoming. Details are on the horizon.
