Featuring songs from the hit Steven Knight drama, This Town (Music From The Original BBC Series) will be released on Polydor Records on April 26th.
The record is further previewed today by Celeste’s stunningly evocative cover of ‘Blue Moon’, which closed out the credits of the most recent episode and is available now.
The This Town soundtrack brings together the show’s genre-wide mix of timeless classics, brand-new music, and iconic hits of the era. It features a world-class mix of artists at the top of their field, paying tribute to this hugely formative period in British life.
The songs played by Fuck The Factory – the band at the heart of This Town – have been created by trailblazing producer Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C, Wet Leg, and founder of the seminal Speedy Wunderground label), who has collaborated with singer-songwriter ESKA and musician, novelist and poet Kae Tempest in work that adds another chapter to this vital story.
This Town celebrates a thrilling evolution of sound, spirit and UK culture. Set against the melting-pot scene of the Midlands in the 1980s, Knight’s epic drama evokes a community navigating personal upheaval and a pivotal moment of social unrest through the transformative possibilities of music. And as this extraordinary group of young people form a band and fight for their own paths in life, the universal concerns of This Town appear more important than ever.
Full track-listing for This Town (Music From The Original BBC Series) is detailed below. All episodes of This Town are available on BBC iPlayer now, with the six-part series continuing weekly at 9PM on Sunday nights on BBC1 until April 28th.
This Town (Music From The Original BBC Series)
01. Self Esteem: ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’
02. Ray Laurél: ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’
03. Fuck The Factory: ‘Estella’
04. Olivia Dean: ‘The Harder They Come’
05. Fuck The Factory: ‘Birdsong’
06. Fuck The Factory: ‘Pelicans’
07. Celeste: ‘Blue Moon’
08. Fuck The Factory: ‘Farewell To Matty And Her Flowers’
09. Gregory Porter: ‘The World’s Going Up In Flames’
10. Fuck The Factory: ‘This Town’
11. Sekou: ‘Wonderful World, Beautiful People’
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