Young Fathers have released the original soundtrack to 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s return to the world of rage, ruin and post-apocalyptic horror.
Out now, the 24-track collection brings together the band’s unmistakable energy with the bleak emotional terrain of the film.
The score marks the Scottish trio’s first full-length film soundtrack. Known for their layered, genre-resistant sound, Young Fathers lean into that freedom here. The album spans warped lo-fi textures, layered chants, off-kilter synths and heavy percussion.
There are both instrumental and vocal tracks, each building out the disorientation and desperation that defines Boyle’s third entry in the 28 Days Later series.
Danny Boyle said the group’s sound was “uniquely suited” to the world of the film. “They have crafted a musical landscape that brings an intense, primal energy to the visuals but also heart and humanity to a world that is at once horrific and strangely beautiful.”
Set nearly three decades after the original outbreak, 28 Years Later picks up in a world still under brutal quarantine. A small group of survivors lives on an isolated island, cut off from the mainland by a heavily guarded causeway. When one of them ventures back into the infected zone, he uncovers a new wave of horror, not just from the infected, but from what the human world has become.
Young Fathers’ soundtrack builds the atmosphere from the inside: it’s physical, unpredictable, and sometimes startlingly intimate. As a standalone listen, it’s bold and disorienting. As a companion to Boyle’s film, it sounds exactly like the story’s next step.
28 Years Later is in cinemas now.
