While We're Young (soundtrack)
While We're Young is the soundtrack to the 2015 film While We're Young. The album accompanied three tracks of James Murphy's score along with licensed tracks; it was released through Milan Records on March 27, 2015, preceded by two singles.
Background
James Murphy composed the film score for While We're Young, reteaming with Baumbach after Greenberg. His involvement was confirmed during July 2014. Having shared a professional working relationship with Baumbach after that film, Murphy met him to discuss about the score and musical palette for that film. He discussed several aspects of the music, including the classical pieces of Antonio Vivaldi which Murphy made the synth versions of it, but instead finalized on the original compositions of these classical pieces, as both of the experimentations were trial and error versions. He composed most of the music with this "simple" and "rudimentary" setup utilizing only one synthesizer. It was a back-and-forth process with Murphy taking cues from an edit and compose a piece at his studio which he would send it back to Baumbach.David Bowie's "Golden Years" is featured prominently in the film. While discussing about that song, Baumbach had few children's music CD stuff which had "weird, children's music versions of things". Discussing those important aspects of other song, he found "Golden Years" being "fun to break down" due to its complicated guitar intro in the first place. He reworked that song using glockenspiel for multiple versions. The film also featured several other licensed songs, handpicked by music supervisor George Drakoulias.