The Last Great Wilderness (album)

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The Last Great Wilderness
The Last Great Wilderness The Pastels Album Cover.png
Soundtrack album by
Released12 August 2003
Genre soundtrack, art rock
Length24:19
Label Geographic/Domino
Producer John McEntire, The Pastels
The Pastels chronology
Illumination
(1997)
The Last Great Wilderness
(2003)
Two Sunsets
(2009)
Professional ratings
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The Last Great Wilderness is a soundtrack album by the Scottish band The Pastels, containing music from the film The Last Great Wilderness . [1]

Contents

Overview

The music comprises mostly short and atmospheric pieces, while three of the songs ("Winter Driving," "Flora's Theme," and "Flora Again") are brief fragments of eerie vocal loops and bells. Along with a cover of Sly and the Family Stone's "Everybody Is a Star" (which had previously appeared on a Geographic label compilation in 2002), the only other track to feature a lead vocal line is "I Picked a Flower", which is credited to The Nu Forest featuring Jarvis Cocker and The Pastels.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stephen McRobbie and Katrina Mitchell, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wilderness Theme" 2:46
2."Winter Driving" 1:04
3."Vincente’s Theme" 2:47
4."Flora’s Theme" 0:37
5."Charlie’s Theme" 3:02
6."Everybody Is a Star" Sylvester Stewart 2:58
7."Flora Again" 0:54
8."Dark Vincente" 3:02
9."Wilderness End Theme" 3:35
10."I Picked a Flower" (feat. Jarvis Cocker)McRobbie, Mitchell, Cocker3:34

Personnel

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References

  1. "The Last Great Wilderness – The Pastels". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 September 2021.