Alex G Enlivens ‘Teenage Sex’ Score, Soundtrack

Alex G’s ongoing creative partnership with filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun begins another chapter this month with the soundtrack to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the director’s new genre-bending horror film following We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow.

Waxwork Records will release the film soundtrack digitally and physically on Aug. 21, featuring selections from Alex G’s evocative score alongside music from R.E.M., Sally Shapiro, Donna Lewis, Counting Crows and Okay Kaya. The label will follow with the complete Alex G score on Sept. 11, expanding on a collaboration that has already produced distinctive music/film pairings.

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The first preview from the soundtrack is “Pain Is the Heart of Love,” an original Alex G composition featuring the unmistakable voice of Paul Buchanan of the Blue Nile. Schoenbrun wrote the lyrics, with layers of guitar and orchestral flourishes giving the track a bittersweet, dreamlike quality that fits the film’s collision of desire, fear and delirium.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma expands Schoenbrun’s fascination with the porous boundary between horror, fantasy and emotional reality. The film follows a young director, played by Hannah Einbinder, who attempts to resurrect a fading slasher franchise and visits its reclusive original star, played by Gillian Anderson. Their encounter sends the pair into a surreal, blood-soaked world inhabited by the spear-wielding Little Death.

Described as a transformative horror remake with surreal wit, the film won the Queer Palm at Cannes and positions itself against the idea of the “guilty pleasure,” instead using genre excess as a route toward self-discovery. Alex G’s score appears to be central to that atmosphere. His collaboration with Schoenbrun began with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair in 2022 and continued with I Saw the TV Glow in 2024.

Alex G is also a key contributor to Phoebe Bridgers’ just-released Dead Oceans album Lost Weekend and will serve as one of the opening acts on her fall North American arena tour.

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