Scottish band Young Fathers behind 28 Years Later soundtrack
The hip hop group featuring Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham Hastings, who are from Edinburgh, were hand-picked by director Boyle despite having no experience working on film before.
'I don't know whether they'd like this description, but they're sort of like the Beach Boys, but so hardcore,' Boyle (below) told Rolling Stone UK when speaking about the group.
'I guess that's kind of their use of harmonies and melodies in their music.'
Explaining how he got Young Fathers onboard with the project, Boyle said: 'It was a huge risk because they'd never done a movie before and it's that thing with any pop group, are you gonna trust the whole movie to them?
'But you go yeah! Yeah! Sony didn't know the first thing about them, but they were wonderful. We had a wonderful back and forth and I went up to Edinburgh to their studio, which is a shed.
'It literally isn't even a garage – it's a shed, and they produce extraordinary stuff there. It was very beautiful. There's some of the stuff you'd expect from them in there, which gives a very different flavour to the film.'
Young Fathers won the prestigious Mercury Prize in 2014 for their debut album Dead and were nominated for a second time in 2023 for their fourth studio album, Heavy, Heavy.
Known for their layered, genre-resistant and politically influenced sound, the soundtrack for 28 Years Later weaves lo-fi textures, chants, off-kilter synths and heavy percussion.
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