North Carolina folk singer Jake Xerxes Fussell and Chicago-based guitarist James Elkington have collaborated on the soundtrack for Rebuilding , a new film directed by Max Walker-Silverman. The duo’s first original score arrives November 14 via Fat Possum , coinciding with the film’s New York theatrical release. Hear two selections—"Contemplating the Moon" and “Glow in the Dark”—below.

“I could hear the cinema in it right away,” producer Dan Janvey said of Fussell in a press statement. “His music is rooted firmly in all the folkloric traditions I love but not at all nostalgic. And that was much like the film we were making; a story in which the past is all around but firmly of the here and now. And since so much of his music has no lyrics, Jake already understood the challenge

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