Moses Sumney previews IS GOD IS soundtrack with Kara Jackson collaboration

Moses Sumney is preparing the IS GOD IS soundtrack for release on 22 May, and the preview track Sins Of The Father featuring Kara Jackson is a strong current item for a 20 May digest. Sumney composed the soundtrack with Joseph Shirley for Aleshea Harris’ feature adaptation of her play IS GOD IS, which premiered as a stage work in 2018.

The film context matters because Sumney has increasingly been moving between music and screen work, appearing in projects such as MaXXXine and The Idol while also maintaining one of the most distinctive voices in modern art-pop and alternative soul.

Sins Of The Father sets the tone for the soundtrack’s Southern Gothic atmosphere, and Kara Jackson’s involvement makes the track especially compelling. Jackson brings a folk-rooted, literary and emotionally exact voice that should pair naturally with Sumney’s dramatic, high-wire sensibility.

The soundtrack tracklist includes Sins Of The Father, Don’t Leave Me Be, Bang! Bang! Bang!, Man’s Blues, Bargain, Twintuition, The Letter, Meeting God and several other cues. For indie readers, this is not a normal album-cycle item, but it is absolutely relevant: an art-pop artist moving into film scoring, working with another major songwriter voice, and building a sound world around revenge, family, myth and Southern Gothic intensity.