Film Needle Drops & Album

Laika’s latest animated stop-motion story explores a fictional, mysterious, unurbanized stretch of land outside the city of Portland, Oregon.

The Impassable Wilderness, as it is called, has many lessons to teach heroine Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) when she drags her classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay) into the woods shrouded in ivy to save her younger brother Mac (Arthur Knight) after a murder of crows swoops in and steals him away. The magical ivy that surrounds Wildwood isn’t supposed to let any Outsiders in, but Prue’s blood hints at a connection she and her brother have to the world without knowing it.

Based on the book of the same name written by The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, the Wildwood film brought about three new songs from Portland-based band, one of which plays during the credits of the movie. Meloy also wrote some songs sung by the Wildwood voice cast at various parts in the film.

Find all the songs in Wildwood — and the album inspired by the world — below. Some overlap can be seen between the album created out of recording sessions and recruited artists, out on October 16, and the songs featured in the film itself:

“You Can Count on Me” Performed by Portugal. The Man, Written by Jeff Bhasker, John Courley, Kyle O’Quin, Asa Taccone and Paul Williams
“Fits and Starts” Performed by The Decemberists, Written by Colin Meloy
“Portland Oregan” Performed by Loretta Lynn (feat. Jack White), Written by Loretta Lynn
“Bandit Kind” Performed by Amandla Stenberg, Written by Colin Meloy
“Main Title (from Star Wars IV: A New Hope)” Written by John Williams
“Alexandra’s Lullaby (Down in the Valley)
“The Better Part of Bravery” Performed by The Decemberists, Written by Colin Meloy

The songs on the album, from artists like Still Woozy, New Constellations and quickly quickly — are as follows: