Jim Guthrie
Jim Guthrie has enjoyed two parallel careers, first as a singer and songwriter in the indie rock community, and later as a composer of scores for video games and movies. Guthrie was born in 1973 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. In his teens, he developed an interest in music, and in addition to playing in bands with his friends, he got a four-track recording rig and began making his own amateur recordings. In 1995, Guthrie released his first album, the cassette-only Home Is Where the Rock Is. In the next three years, Guthrie released three more cassettes (Victim of Lo-Fi, Documenting Perks, Pt. 1, and Some Things You Should Know About Sound and Hearing). In 1999, material from the four tapes was compiled into an album titled A Thousand Songs, which became the debut release for the influential Canadian indie label Three Gut Records. 1999 also saw Guthrie form the band the Royal City All Stars with friend and fellow Guelph musician Aaron Riches. By the time they released their debut album in 2000, At Rush Hour the Cars, their name had been shortened to Royal City, and they would collaborate with pre-fame Leslie Feist and Sufjan Stevens and release two more albums before the group split up in 2004. (Stevens would release a compilation of Royal City material on his Asthmatic Kitty label in 2009.) Guthrie continued to record and release solo material during his tenure with Royal City, and in 2003 he released the album Now More Than Ever. It was a major critical success, earning a Juno Award nomination and certifying his status as one of the most acclaimed artists on the Canadian indie music scene. In 2006, Guthrie participated in the recording of Return to the Sea, the debut album by Islands, a group formed by Nicholas Thorburn and Jamie Thompson of the Unicorns. Guthrie's time in the band was short-lived, but later Guthrie and Thorburn collaborated in the Neil Young-influenced project Human Highway, releasing the album Moody Motorcycle in 2008. By this time, Guthrie had started taking on projects as a composer for hire, beginning with scores for the documentaries Life Is a Fairy Tale (2006) and The Bodybuilder and I (2007). He soon branched out into commercials and television projects, and enjoyed a major career breakthrough with his music for the 2011 video game Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery. The Sword and Sworcery score would later see release on CD and vinyl, and helped earn him a commission to write music for the documentary Indie Game: The Movie. In 2013, Guthrie released his first proper solo album since Now More Than Ever, Takes Time, another critical success which earned him a Polaris Prize nomination. In 2014, Guthrie released another collaborative project, One of These Days I'll Get It Right, an album of experimental hip-hop-influenced tracks recorded with Solid Mas. The following year, author Andrew Hood published Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What, a biography of the musician. 2017 saw the release of Planet Coaster, the soundtrack to a video game Guthrie scored in collaboration with J.J. Ipsen.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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You, Me & Gravity: The Music of Planet Coaster
Film Soundtracks - Released by Frontier Developments on Nov 17, 2016
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Below (Original Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Dark Flute on Jan 21, 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nobody Saves the World (Original Game Soundtrack)
Soundtracks - Released by Dark Flute on Jan 18, 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Takes Time
Alternative & Indie - Released by Static Clang on Jun 3, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Reigns: Her Majesty (Original Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Dark Flute on Jan 1, 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Now, More Than Ever
Rock - Released by Ba Da Bing! on Jan 1, 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Indie Game: The Movie Soundtrack
Film Soundtracks - Released by Dark Flute on Jun 26, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
One of These Days I'll Get It Right
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Dark Flute on Jan 23, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Now, More Than Ever (Expanded Edition)
Alternative & Indie - Released by 3 Syllables Records on Jun 7, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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スキタイのリミックス:冒剣的音響劇
Electronic - Released by Dark Flute on Aug 1, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bleak Sword (Original Score)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Dark Flute on Sep 13, 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Takes Time Instrumentals & Demos
Pop - Released by Dark Flute on Jul 25, 2013
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Scythian Steppes: seven #sworcery songs localized for japan
Electronic - Released by Dark Flute on Aug 1, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Weightless: The Ambient Music of Planet Coaster
Film Soundtracks - Released by Frontier Developments on Apr 11, 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Out of Our Hands (JETT: The Far Shore)
Pop - Released by Dark Flute on Oct 14, 2021
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