Drive-Inspired Sketches by Chromatics, Desire Include Track Listings of Unused Film Score

The musical partnership between director Nicolas Winding Refn and electronic musician Johnny Jewel dates back to Refn's Bronson, which used a track from Jewel's group Glass Candy to strike its stylized period feel. For Refn's latest film, the L.A.-set crime thriller Drive, he turned once more to Jewel to help create an '80s-tinged pop synth sound -- and the inspiration seemed to go both ways, as evidenced by drawings and a full collection of Drive-inspired tracks created by Jewel and his musical collaborators.

Two of Jewel's groups, Chromatics and Desire, have tracks featured on the soundtrack to Drive ("Tick of the Clock" and "Under Your Spell," respectively). But the score to Drive is largely comprised of compositions by composer Cliff Martinez, built around a handful of mostly electronic tracks that also include Kavinsky's "Night Call" and College ft. Electric Youth's "A Real Hero."

"Johnny had scored two specific scenes -- one was 'Tick of the Clock' which was in the beginning from Chromatics and then there was 'Under Your Spell' later on," Refn told Movieline via telephone earlier today. "Then I had the College song and the Kavinsky song, and I had Cliff Martinez kind of emulate the feel of those sounds and those songs into a score."

Jewel, meanwhile, wound up composing his own Drive-inspired tracks at Refn's encouragement. These unused score tracks appear to have surfaced as part of a 30-drawing collection of sketches by Chromatics and Desire inspired by scenes from the film; on the blog Primitive Desire, Jewel's Desire collaborator Megan Louise notes that the songs listed "will be coming out on Johnny Jewel & Nat Walker's soundtrack project 'Symmetry' in the fall."

Full two-part track listing follows, but beware spoilers!

1.

Isolation (3:10)

Winner Take All (2:42)

Death Mask (1:22)

Love Theme/Air (2:01)

Magic Gardens (1:40)

The Family (1:33)

Rearview Mirror Pt 1 (0:37)

Rearview Mirror Pt 2 (1:04)

Irene's Eyes (3:01)

Lady (2:56)

The Midnight Sun (1:37)

City of Dreams (2:42)

Beyond the Rim (2:18)

Love Bite (3:40)

Driver's Theme (4:02)

Baby (2:35)

Bernie's Theme (1:40)

The Nightshift (1:00)

Nino's Death (1:41)

Love Theme/Earth (3:27)

Fading Away (2:44)

Memories Are Forever (1:50)

2.

Flashback (2:57)

Paradise Lost (0:28)

Car Jack (2:50)

Behind the Wheel (7:28)

End Game (2:21)

Murder Motel (4:29)

The Crimson Torch (2:43)

Fragments (0:43)

Strangers (4:03)

Music Box (0:43)

Paper Chase (3:00)

Mr. Midnight (3:28)

Shannon's Death (1:11)

Blood Sport (2:26)

The Nightshift/Reprise (0:58)

Outside Looking In (2:21)

Symphony of Light (3:15)

All the Faces (2:46)

Love Theme/Water (4:14)

Echoes of the Mind (6:29)

The rest of the drawings are taken from stills from the film, depicting various scenes of Driver (Ryan Gosling), the neighbor he falls for (Carey Mulligan), and the various forces he comes to contend with as he crosses paths with seedy crime bosses and thugs in L.A. They've got a charming Etch-a-Sketch quality to them, but what's most striking is how vividly they capture scenes from the film in spare black and white renderings.

Click here to see all 30 of the Drive-inspired sketches, but again, potential spoilers abound, so view with caution.

[Primitive Desire]