With ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ A24 is pushing into movie soundtracks

The indie film powerhouse commissioned original songs from more than a dozen artists for the new movie.

Every generation has its iconic movie soundtrack. The curated collections of songs that accompanied films like The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, and Garden State took on cultural lives of their own, thanks to their ability to distill each movie’s ethos into the best kind of mixed tape.