Hereditary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

• Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on green vinyl.
• 2LP, 180 gram audiophile vinyls.

Hereditary is a 2018 American psychological horror film written and directed by Ari Aster in his feature directorial debut. He later went on to direct Midsommar (2019) and Beau Is Afraid (2023). The movie stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne.

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.

The soundtrack for the movie was written, arranged and produced by Colin Stetson. Aster tried to keep it simple for Stetson regarding the music, but he wanted one thing to be apparent: the music had to “feel evil”. Stetson explained that he tried to look at the score as though it was a character in the film, the character of the unfolding narrative. With this score, he tried to avoid certain ubiquitous tropes found in film scoring and used sound sources to accomplish different ends. Stetson wanted that the music developed as the narrative progressed.

A1 Funeral
A2 Mothers & Daughters
A3 Brother & Sister
A4 Charlie
A5 Party, Crash
B1 Mourning
B2 Aftermath
B3 Séance / Sleepwalking
B4 Second Séance Pt. 1
B5 Second Séance Pt. 2
B6 Second Séance Pt. 3
C1 Classroom
C2 Dreaming
C3 Book Burning
C4 Joanie
C5 Get Out
C6 Leigh’s Things
D1 Steve
D2 Peter
D3 Chasing Peter
D4 The Attic
D5 Reborn
D6 Hail, Paemon!