Absolutely Free has released its original soundtrack recording for the film Two Cares Due None. The soundtrack marks the band’s first foray into feature-length composition, after previously scoring short films by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. “The film entranced us into a distinct musical universe,” says Absolutely Free. “We found ourselves indulging mood over melody, exploring the periphery of what we have created live and on record up to this point.”

“Writing started in Iceland, where I travelled to be near the shoot,” recounts band member Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg. “The filmmakers made some friends and one of them had the keys to a derelict church in the old town in Blönduós. I spent a lot of time there alone, playing a beautiful pipe organ and overlooking the ocean waves – but never after dark.”

The feature film was independently produced by visual artists Chris Boni and Melissa Fisher-Rozenberg, shot on location in Iceland, Italy, and Canada. Two Cares Due None explores the ways different cultures place value on objects as commonplace Icelandic artifacts gain exemplary worth in Canada’s art world and Italy’s black market. Absolutely Free – whose previous releases provide uniquely prismatic views of the polarized ideologies that exist in our culture – intuits these concepts with incredible fluidity, adorning the imagery in distinctive, otherworldly sound.

Two Cares Due None OST follows Absolutely Free’s 2019 EP Geneva Freeport, an absurd fantasy about taking a holiday to one of the world’s most notorious high security art storage facilities, fittingly “bringing to question the process of ascribing economic value to cultural artifacts.” In contrast to the meditative ambience of Two Cares Due None, the EP (which features Meg Remy of U.S. Girls on “Currency” and mixing by Sandro Perri).

Absolutely Free
Two Cares Due None
Official Soundtrack Recording
April 29, 2020

1. Begins
2. Two Cares Due None
3. Work Theme 1
4. Country Drive + Lunch
5. Travelling
6. Contemplating
7. The Office / The Community
8. Full Sweep
9. Take One
10. Post Nightmare
11. Bubble Wrap
12. First Letter
13. “The Funeral’ Opening
14. Procession
15. Packing Up