Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has chopped and screwed Wilco’s breakthrough 2002 LP Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with the help of Houston’s Chopstars. Jenkins shared the project on Twitter, noting the “#YeehawAgenda is alive and well.” Check it out below.
Jenkins has previously chopped and screwed the soundtracks to Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, as well as two Grizzly Bear albums (Purple Veckatimest / Painted Ruins (ChoppedNotSlopped)). The Chopstars recently remixed fellow Houstonian Megan Thee Stallion’s album Suga.
Read “Director Barry Jenkins on the Music That Made Moonlight” on the Pitch.