The soundtrack for Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film. The road movie's plot follows a family's trip to a children's beauty pageant.Little Miss Sunshine was the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer...

is a mix of indie rock and folk music that fits the scenes and overall feel of the film. DeVotchKa

DeVotchKa

DeVotchKa is a four-piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble. They take their name from the Russian word devochka , meaning "girl"...

 provides the majority of the music on the soundtrack, and also the score, which they did with Mychael Danna

Mychael Danna

Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...

. There are also selections from Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...

, Rick James

Rick James

James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...

, and Tony Tisdale featured on the album. The song heard on the trailer featured on TV was "Coming Home" by The 88

The 88

The 88 is a four-piece indie rock band based in Los Angeles, California. They have released five full length albums as of 2010, and are the backing band for the Ray Davies Fall 2011 US Tour.- Members :Members of the band are:...

. The internet trailer was accompanied by the "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" by The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...

.

Track listing

1. "The Winner Is" – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa (Score)
2. "Till the End of Time" – DeVotchKa
3. "You Love Me (Remix)" – DeVotchKa
4. "First Push" – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa (Score)
5. "No Man's Land" – Sufjan Stevens
6. "Let's Go" – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa (Score)
7. "No One Gets Left Behind" – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa (Score)
8. "Chicago" – Sufjan Stevens
9. "We're Gonna Make It" – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa (Score)
10. "Do You Think There's a Heaven" – Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa (Score)
11. "Catwalkin'" – Tony Tisdale
12. "Superfreak" (Rocasound Revamp) – Rick James
13. "La Llorona" – Music by Luís Martz, Arranged by DeVotchKa
14. "How It Ends" – DeVotchka

Credits

• Score Composed by Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna
  Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer.-Life and career:Mychael Danna is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, a score which earned Danna the first of his thirteen Genie Award nominations. He has won...
  
   and DeVotchKa
  DeVotchKa
  DeVotchKa is a four-piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble. They take their name from the Russian word devochka , meaning "girl"...
  
  
• Executive Soundtrack Producers for Lakeshore Records: Skip Williamson and Brian McNelis
• Executive Soundtrack Album Producers: Susan Jacobs, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, and Peter Saraf
• A & R for Lakeshore: Eric Craig
• Art Director: Stephanie Mente
• Layout by Joe Chavez

Reviews

• Elisabeth Vincentelli of Amazon.com
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   says, "The CD actually has a rather uniform tone, and mercifully it's a lovely one. Composer Mychael Danna is paired with the Denver band DeVotchKa, who perform his score and offer a few tunes of their own. Making excellent use of strings, tuba, and squeezebox
  Squeezebox
  The term Squeezebox is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina...
  
  , they set a mood that echoes the movie's warmly idiosyncratic one."Clarification: the score songs are built from instrumental arrangements of original Devotchka songs, notably "We're Gonna Make It" and "The Winner Is" draw heavily from 2004's NPR album of the year, "How it Ends".
• Jonathan Jarry called the soundtrack "an intriguing experiment in smaller folk sounds with a slight Eastern European twist, an American polka for dysfunctional families and the malaise of life."

External links

• Official Soundtrack Site
• The Soundtrack's Myspace Page