The Milk Carton Kids Songs in PROMISED LAND

Gus Van Sant's powerful American drama PROMISED LAND (starring and co-written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski) will also feature songs from a great new American band The Milk Carton Kids. The Los Angeles-based duo of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan caught Van Sant's ear when they first performed in Portland with their sound that the New York Times has characterized as "a sweetly dazzling variation on close-harmony vocals, part Simon and Garfunkel and part Everly Brothers, with occasional acoustic prestidigitation." NPR named it "gorgeous contemporary folk."  The duo, recently signed by the record label Anti- has three songs -- "The Ash & Clay," "Jewel of June" and "Snake Eyes" -- prominently featured in PROMISED LAND. For Kenneth Pattengale the song "Snake Eyes," which plays over an moving montage sequence, "draws heavily on the themes Gus is exploring, most directly on a sense of nostalgia, which has this wonderfully complex duality to it: at once we revel fondly in the past yet mourn with sadness that it's gone."

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