Jay McCarrol: Tony (soundtrack) [A24 MUSIC]

Why you'll love it

Jay McCarrol's score to Tony, the A24 film about a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain's summer in a Provincetown kitchen, directed by Toronto's own Matt Johnson. McCarrol and Johnson go back to Nirvanna The Band The Show, and the LP closes with Patti Page's "Old Cape Cod".

This edition

• Single jacket with printed inner sleeve
• 12 score cues plus Patti Page's "Old Cape Cod"

About the album

Tony goes back to 1975, when a Vassar student named Anthony Bourdain talked his way into a dishwashing job at a Provincetown seafood restaurant and fell in with its hard-living cooks; stories from that summer turned up years later in Kitchen Confidential. Matt Johnson directed it, with Dominic Sessa as Bourdain, Antonio Banderas as the chef and Emilia Jones, Leo Woodall and Stavros Halkias around them. A24 put it in theatres in August 2026, to good reviews.

Johnson brought along his longtime collaborator Jay McCarrol, and the score is short, lean and a little restless, much like its hero: 12 cues, most under two minutes, with titles straight off the line ("Greasefire", "Friday Special", "Black Doesn't Mean Burnt"). Patti Page's "Old Cape Cod" sees you out. It's the rare soundtrack that makes you hungry, and we accept no liability for what you cook afterwards.

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Out November 20, 2026 on A24 Music (cat# A24M068).