Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner team up for track in Netflix's Train Dreams

The track – which shares a name withe the movie – was co-written and co-produced by the duo and will play over the movie’s end credits and appears on its soundtrack, due out on 7 November alongside the film’s theatrical release.

Based on the 2011 work by the novelist Johnson, Train Dreams stars Joel Edgerton as Robert Granier, a logger and railroad worker in early 20th-century America, alongside Felicity Jones and William H. Macy. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the film will also screen at TIFF ahead of its 21 November Netflix debut.

Bentley expressed how Cave was a natural choice to contribute a song in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, having long admired Johnson’s work. “It turns out that Train Dreams is one of his all-time favorite books, but he initially feared there wouldn’t be time to do something because he was getting ready to go on tour,” Bentley said. “Then he watched the film and was inspired to write something, and the whole thing came together really quickly.”

Produced with input from Luis Almau, the song also joins Dessner’s original score on the soundtrack, with a vinyl edition also due on 14 November.

Bentley praised Cave’s ability to capture the film’s emotional tone: “The film has such a delicate tone at the end, one that was really hard to get right, and I didn’t want a song that would push the audience in another direction emotionally. But Nick and I were very much on the same page from the outset. I knew he would craft something beautiful and resonant.