'American Honey' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Is Here

The soundtrack from AMERICAN HONEY, melds country, Southern hip-hop "trap" music and American radio classics featuring music from E-40, Rae Sremmurd, Lapsley MadeinTYO, Sam Hunt, Mazzy Star and Lady Antebellum and it's finally here.

The film AMERICAN HONEY is awash in great music -- and no road trip is possible without a carefully crafted song selection.

The film features Star (Sasha Lane) as a free-spirited teenager on the brink of adulthood who leaves her troubled home in the American Midwest and hits the road with a "mag crew," itinerant laborers who peddle publications door-to-door for long hours during the day and party hard at night, never certain where the job will lead next.

Led by hard-driving manager Krystal (Riley Keough) and her seductive enforcer Jake (Shia LaBeouf), the 15-strong 071 Crew becomes a surrogate family to Star, offering hope, possibility, love -- and the freedom that comes from being on the road.

For her first feature set and filmed in the U.S., writer-director Andrea Arnold (FISH TANK, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and Academy Award-winning short "Wasp") offers an electrifying depiction of American youth living on the margins and yearning to belong in an unforgiving landscape of strip malls, chain hotels and suburban sprawl.

Arnold crossed paths on her travels with an actual "mag crew" in California, embedding herself in its fold, sleeping in the same cheap motel and observing the daily rituals of its young sales team, many of whom were away from home for the first time.

She discovered that being part of a crew is less a job than a lifestyle, and the crew itself less a group of business colleagues than a kind of wild, surrogate, alternative family.

Many of the mag crew kids Arnold traveled with favored trap music, a strain of Southern hip-hop that originated in the early 1990s in the Southern U.S. Memorable tracks in the AMERICAN HONEY soundtrack include songs by Rae Sremmurd, MadeinTYO, Sam Hunt, Mazzy Star and Lady Antebellum.

Arnold went to great lengths to choose songs that were authentic to the world of her story and the emotions of her characters and cast members, herself included.

On the road during her research phase she listened to songs on endless repeat, and queried members of the mag crew she traveled with on which songs they listened to on the road.

"Music is a huge part of my life but it's also a huge part of the mag crews' life," Arnold admits.

"It's a way of communicating and expressing emotion -- and massively important because it's so truthful to their world."

A24 presents AMERICAN HONEY in select theaters in NY and LA on September 30, and will expand in October. The AMERICAN HONEY - Motion Picture Soundtrack is now available for streaming. You can stream the album below.

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American Honey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Tracklist

Quigley - Beginning Of Anything
Madeintyo - Uber Everywhere
Sam Hunt - Take Your Time
Kevin Gates - Out The Mud
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
E-40 - Choices
Jeremih - All The Time ft. Lil Wayne & Natasha Mosley
Ciara - Ride ft.

Ludacris
The Raveonettes - Recharge & Revolt
Rae Sremmurd - No Type
Carnage - Bricks ft.

Migos
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Lapsy - 8896
OG Maco - U Guessed It
Carnage - I Like Tuh ft.

I LOVE MAKONNEN
Bonnie Prince - Careless Love
Lady Antebellum - American Honey
Raury - God's Whisper
Razzy Bailey - I Hate Hate