Today, the soundtrack for Don’t Fall in Love With Yourself comes out, featuring tracks various highlights from Justin Pearson’s career, as well as unreleased score material from members of Metz, Planet B, and Holy Fuck.
The soundtrack alone (which you can get here) sounds and looks like a steal, but if you haven’t seen the film already, we couldn’t recommend it enough. Justin Pearson’s casual but raw narrative had us gripping the edge of our seat within minutes, and in an entirely different way than say, watching his band The Locust defend themselves from glass bottles, ill will, and crowd killing suicidals in the lawless early 2000’s.
Although there is plenty of that – in fact, if you’re a music lover, or even just a fan of The Locust and Swing Kids, there are a lot of treats here in the editing. The pacing is so well done that somehow they manage to weave in entire performances from the bands while allowing your focus to soften/sharpen depending on the narrative. At just over an hour, once it was over, we immediately wanted more, but of course, life gets in the way.
There’s an incredible amount of testimonials throughout too, from family members to bandmates and contemporaries, many of which offer truly candid answers. You can tell the crew must have been at least semi-trusted by everyone involved, because everyone seems stoked to talk and interact, but also delve beneath the surface. It’s a chemistry lots of documentaries like this wish they had – seeing such a broad base of cantankerous noise makers stop what they’re doing and let you know ‘hey, this guy is a real one’ is just so interesting, because you can also tell that none of it is about ego.So now, watch it – before you go any further, experience it for what it is.
Okay, good, you’ve seen it now. You’re probably feeling like we did, like you would sit through twice that amount of content if it was that good. Well, we don’t have any more cool footage of the bands to show you unfortunately. But that being said, we’ll make it up to you with this – we’re so stoked to finally present this clip of a recent conversation we had with Justin Pearson, where we got into genre battles, politics, running a label, and the parallels in his voice and that of Nausea‘s legendary Amy Miret. Enjoy!
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This was just a brief clip – we’re hoping to get a lot more up soon! Because Zoom is fucked, it is proving difficult. But we are striving forward diligently. Many, many thanks again to Justin Pearson, Three One G, The Chain World, and everyone that helped move stars for this one to happen – it was a great time and we learned a lot. For more info, you can check out the doc’s website here.