The director and writer of Moonlight, Barry Jenkins, has collaborated with The ChopStars on a chopped and screwed album of Grizzly Bear songs.
Purple Veckatimest / Painted Ruins (ChopNotSlop) was released for free on Audiomack on Thursday. The ChopStars remix all the songs from Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest and Painted Ruins.
Jenkins credited DJ Candlestick and The ChopStars for the album Friday morning on Twitter. The filmmaker does so in a reply to the Grizzly Bear account after they tweeted their support.
As Zero Week on Beale Street ends… GRIZZLY BEAR X BARRY JENKINS & CHOPSTARS – PURPLE VECKATIMEST / PAINTED RUINS https://t.co/FkpTpA8rA3
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) October 13, 2017
Can’t believe the director of my favorite movie last year “Moonlight” did a full on chopnotslop remix of both Veck and Painted Ruins!!! ??? https://t.co/WB55g8Co24
— Grizzly Bear (@grizzlybear) October 13, 2017
.@grizzlybear yr music means the world to me, all praise to @candlestickem + @TheChopstars, taking this into production with me next week?? https://t.co/GVihgrRyz4
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) October 13, 2017
This isn’t the first time Jenkins has collaborated with The ChopStars. Purple Moonlight, an album consisting of remixed songs from the soundtrack to Moonlight, was released in February.
As Jenkins says in his tweets, he begins production on an adaption of If Beale Street Could Talk, very soon. It’s the director’s followup to Moonlight, which took in over $65 million at the box office and won the Best Picture Oscar.
Grizzly Bear put out Painted Ruins, their fifth studio album, in August. The album reached number 27 on the Billboard Hot 200.