The Octopus Project Tapped A Grunting Riley Keough & Singing Plants When Scoring ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ – Sound & Screen Film

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After a live performance of the song “The Creatures of Nature” from Sasquatch Sunset at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event, the film’s composers, risk-taking band The Octopus Project, revealed that they also recorded a version relayed entirely in bigfoot grunts recorded by the film’s leading lady, actress Riley Keough, who sang English language lyrics for the song.

The film from the quirky, adventurous directing duo the Zellner Bros. (David and Nathan Zellner), features Keough and Jesse Eisenberg as members of a roaming, dwindling tribe of sasquatches marked the latest collaboration between the siblings and the band, who’ve worked together on numerous projects.

Both filmmakers and composers thrive on raising the out-there bar on one another, resulting in the alternate grunt track. When [Keough] recorded the vocals for this, they also did some ADR for her grunts – and there’s no dialogue in the film whatsoever, so it’s just grunting.

And so when they sent us the tracks of her vocals, they also sent all of the grunting,” revealed Josh Lambert on stage with his bandmates Toto Miranda and Yvonne Lambert (who’s also Josh’s wife). “And we thought it was a great idea to make a grunt version, a grunt variation just for fun,” Yvonne added. “And we sent it to David and he sent it to Riley and she loved it!” “I think it’s on the end of the album on streaming, so it’s streamable,” said Josh.