Not all soundtracks are created equally. It’s a difficult feat to accomplish, balancing the heft of visual art with the transportive power of music. There are soundtracks that have stood the test of time, like the of-the-era-infused foundations of Saturday Night Fever and Purple Rain . And then there are soundtracks that have cropped up recently, breathing life into films before they even hit theaters, like the works of Jordan Peele and his company, Monkeypaw Productions .

Peele understands firsthand that assembling an affective soundtrack is crucial to the filmmaking experience. His production company first grabbed attention for its use of music in December 2018, when the trailer for the Jordan Peele-written and directed 2019 film Us debuted. The Oakland duo Luniz’ 1995 sin

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