Did You Catch This in the BACKROOMS Soundtrack?

Added: 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]Remember all the five-year-olds begging for the caretaker to be in the Backrooms movie and how everyone said it wouldn't happen? Looks like the five-year-olds were right. Let's talk about the soundtrack. After months of waiting, it's finally here. Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, was released last weekend and it's already got up to some insane numbers. I mean, look at this stuff. I went and saw it myself and it's the type of film that just rewrites your brain chemistry for the night. Music aside, the cinematography was beautiful.

[00:00:27]The editing and framing were so eerie and unsettling and the acting was great as well. And don't even get me started on the special effects and sound design.

[00:00:35]Those were top-notch, too. And you know what I was most excited about? How much I got right and how much all of you got right. Our music theorizing paid off and we were exactly right about a lot of the music that would be featured in the film. For this video, I won't do a full album review like I normally would on the channel. Instead, I'll cover the references and Easter eggs of the music as a whole. Real quick though, let me say this. Our channel isn't strictly a Backrooms channel. YouTube seems to think so because this kind of content is one of the only things that gets traction. So, I need your help. Please, please, please leave a quick comment or something and tell me what other kinds of music you're interested in. I want to be able to branch out. If you're just here for the Backrooms stuff, please kindly unsubscribe. We'd both be better off if you did. But now the music. Let's get into this. I'll start with the leitmotifs and then I'll show you all of the external songs. Some of them might surprise you. First and most obvious was Still Life. I'm sure plenty of you recognize this if you're familiar with Kane's soundtracks already. This song from volume three of Kane's soundtrack series was played so many times.

[00:01:34]>> [music] >> It was also used as a leitmotif though, not always played verbatim. It's far away and reverbed in Complex, the closing track, and Old Home Not Yet Built is an interpolation of the song, almost a Still Life part three. I think that's pretty cool. Auditory Guide Post from volume one of the Backrooms soundtrack is there for a second in Cold Floor, which was cool to hear in theaters.

[00:01:57]Every time I heard something I recognized, I silently freaked out and told all my friends what the reference was. It was probably pretty annoying.

[00:02:03]There are two motifs from Kane's soundtracks that are in way too many songs to list all of them. The weird drunk cat noise, this one.

[00:02:15]And the slidy reed synth.

[00:02:18]It just tied the film more to his existing videos. I liked it. And of course, the star of the show, the government funding leitmotif, was played subtly at least two times. I didn't actually notice these in theaters, but I did when listening to the soundtrack at home. It's one of my favorite parts of Kane's music, the government [music] funding leitmotif. It's so good, and I'm glad it got some screen time.

[00:02:59]For now, those were all the leitmotifs I could find. Let me know if you find any others. And now, the part you've probably been waiting for. Yes, a song by The Caretaker was featured in The Backrooms movie.

[00:03:10]B1 All That Follows Is True was played in Mary's mental hospital flashback scene. I gasped when I heard this one in the theater. Again, I was probably pretty annoying to the other people there, but not as annoying as the bald dude in the front row scrolling Facebook the whole time on max brightness. Some people just don't understand peak. In addition to B1, a song called ulterior motives was featured in the film during the scene of Mary at the party. I didn't know this till my friend told me afterwards, but this song was actually a piece of lost media, I'm pretty sure, [music] and there's a weird story behind it, I believe. If you're into lost media and that kind of stuff, you should check out our lost artist series where I investigate the stories of musicians and bands that have disappeared from the internet. I told you we don't just make backrooms content. In addition to that, a song called Lounge Lizard Piano Dream was used as the background music for Mary's commercial.

[00:03:55]There's not a lot to say about this one, I don't think, but everyone online lists it as a notable song that was used, so whatever. And finally, something I thought was really cool. The credit song was The Word Becomes Flesh by Boards of Canada. Apparently, the song is from their brand new album, and it was used in the film before the album came out, so Kane got early access. That's pretty awesome. I know this video has been short, but all in all, I really, really liked the film and its music. I'm not a fan of gore at all, so I could have done without the bloody parts, but it was pretty minimal. I'm so glad it wasn't a just a blood and [music] guts fest.

[00:04:31]My favorite songs from the soundtrack have to be Hand Print, Lamb Sick, Humble MRI Company, and Old Home Not Yet Built.

[00:04:39]They're all phenomenal pieces of film score work and are great as standalone songs as well. They are making it into my instrumental playlists. Before you go, though, there's something interesting I want to point out. We typically cover small artists on this channel, which usually means anyone with under 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. I know Kane has been famous for a while, but before we started theorizing about the soundtrack, he had 30-something thousand listeners. Sure, his channel had already popped off years ago, but not as many people were listening to his music on streaming services.

[00:05:07]Before the film's release, he had nearly 80 after our videos. Now, he has 170,000 since the movie's come out. I'm not sure how much of that was our fault, but the million combined views for us talking about his music surely helped. This also means that Kane is technically the first small artist to break 100k listeners after a video about them. If you want to make that a common occurrence, please help out by supporting the channel.

[00:05:32]Leave a comment, subscribe, drop a like, or join our Discord. We'd love to have you as part of our community. And that's it. Thank you all so much for the insane success of these Backrooms videos, and again, keep in mind that we do so much more in the world of music. I love this film. I hope you loved it, too, and I hope you'll stick around for our next videos because we have some really exciting [music] things planned. Until then, keep exploring new sounds.