KAREN O AND THE KIDS Where The Wild Things Are OST (2009 UK 14-track CD soundtrack album - Inside Karen O is a Wild Thing – as singer for the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs, her wild thing is in your face, vulnerable, obnoxious, tender, exciting… a self-proclaimed 'spazoid.' To Oscar-nominated director Spike Jonze, however, Karen O and her music possess something of a child-like innocence, a guileless charm that put her exactly on the right emotional wavelength to sonically capturethe film, be it a tender moment or a wild rumpus. To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, these include Tristan Bechet [Services], Tom Biller [co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons], Bradford Cox [Deerhunter], Brian Chase [Yeah Yeah Yeahs], Dean Fertita [Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs], Aaron Hemphill [Liars], Greg Kurstin [The Bird and the Bee], Jack Lawrence [The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes], Oscar Michel [Gris Gris], Imaad Wasif [New Folk Implosion, Alaska], Nick Zinner [Yeah Yeah Yeahs] and an untrained children's choir. Together, Karen O and the Kids created songs that are at times gargantuan and at others stripped-down and bittersweet).