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Sep 02, 2015 Elliott Smith By Christopher Roberts

The Elliott Smith documentary Heaven Adores You got a limited theatrical release on May 7 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 17 via Eagle Rock Entertainment. Now it’s been revealed that a soundtrack is on the way and that it will feature as many as 16 unreleased Elliott Smith songs (the documentary did feature a bunch of unreleased Smith music).

As Pitchfork reports, the film’s producer (and Smith’s friend) Kevin Moyer has issued a statement about the soundtrack, saying:

“Right now my track list is 20 Elliott songs from the film with only around four or five having been previously released. I spent a lot of time on the song selection and sequence order so that it is hopefully a balance between rough and polished works, early and late career compositions, instrumental and vocals both, and trying to make sure that we showed his evolution as an artist too, but also retaining the story that the film presents as well as making sure that the soundtrack has a good flow and is an enjoyable listen. For example, the first two songs / the first five minutes of soundtrack are instrumental, they are young tracks, so I think they work there chronologically - both with real life and also the order that they are used and heard in movie - but I think it also symbolically represents the world that we live in now too… a world of music where Elliott’s voice is missing, and that is really fucking sad. So hopefully we can keep him and his memory alive through the movie and of course his music too with this soundtrack release. We are still finishing it all up, but I know that the label plans to make an announcement in the upcoming weeks that will reveal the release date and also the full track list too.”

Check out the trailer for Heaven Adores You below, as well as the film’s first few minutes, and another clip from the film.

Also, Under the Radar conducted the last ever interview and photo-shoot with Smith before his passing and you can read that here.