Eef Barzelay, the witty and sometimes-too clever ex-singer of disbanded country irony rockers Clem Snide, has composed yet another score to another indie flick.
This time he’s tackling music for “Yellow Handkerchief,” a road movie starring William Hurt, Maria Bello and directed by Israeli-born filmmaker Udayan Prasad (“My Son the Fanatic” and “Opa!“) due later this year.
Barzelay’s first foray into film scoring was the 2007 Sundance indie-comedy, “Rocket Science,” which was so insufferably filled with every “indie” prerequisite ever (stilted, quirky, underachieving, awkward, unrequited) that we literally yelled a lot at the television when we finally rented it and contemplated Xanax as a passive aggressive method of fast forward.
And nothing against Barzelay, aside from trying to be too cute lyrically sometimes, but the honking horn, banging of tin drum and I-can’t-play-accordion, accordion score was like sitting wide awake through dental work (the single was harmless enough though).
Here’s to hoping this next time goes smoother.
