AMERICAN BEAUTY (OST)

Among all his Academy Award-nominated scores — including classics like 'The Shawshank Redemption','Wall-E', 'Finding Nemo5', 'Saving Mr Banks', and 'The Road to Perdition'— his score to the 1999 Academy Award-winning Best Picture: 'American Beauty' remains his most distinctive.

That’s because Newman made the bold choice of composing a score almost entirely with percussion instruments, brilliantly intuiting that the lack of melodic resolution in the film’s themes would echo and amplify what he termed the “moral ambiguity” of the script. The result was a haunting and wholly original film score that is instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the picture. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to present this work of genius on blood red rose vinyl to match the original album art (here used for the first time on a vinyl release) and the film’s shattering conclusion!