Animal Farm: Listen To Heitor Pereira’s Debut Score Track To Andy Serkis’ Animated Feature Animated!
April 30, 2026
Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff
Animal Farm, Directed by Andy Serkis and Featuring an All-Star Voice Cast Including Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson and Kathleen Turner
To mark the release of Animal Farm—Soundtrack from the Angel Film, we have the distinct privilege of sharing a debut score track, “Animal Farm Song” by Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me), the film’s Grammy Award®-winning composer! Lakeshore Records will release the album digitally on Friday, May 1. Also featured on the album is the energetic toe-tapper, “Break Down The Barn” by Pigeon John. See the track list, streaming links and more details below.
Ranging from joyous to sinister, the extraordinarily vivid orchestral score provides a backdrop to the many thematic and emotional themes of the animated reimagining of the classic book adapted by director Andy Serkis. The soundtrack also includes three high energy electronic tracks by legendary DJ Carl Cox. Animal Farm, featuring an all-star voice cast including Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, and Woody Harrelson, is in theaters beginning today. The film is distributed by Angel, a media and technology company successfully pioneering a first-of-its-kind audience-driven studio model.
Notes Pereira: “I grew up reading George Orwell’s books and have always admired Andy Serkis’s work in our film universe. The story is so compelling and current that there is a certain importance attached to it. Andy did a great job directing it, and I’m proud to have been invited to collaborate with him. There are lots of melodies in the score, and there is a lot of music in it!”
Listen to the album: [Choose Your Service]
Track List
01. Going on Vacation
02. Laughterhouse
03. Rebellion
04. Break Down The Barn
05. I Want That Farm
06. The Farmhouse
07. The Farm Commandments
08. About to Burst
09. Let’s Farm!
10. Napoleon
11. Take All Our Worries Away
12. Build a Water Wheel
13. Construction Project
14. Farm Meeting
15. Give Us Grain
16. All Animals Are Equal
17. A Moment with Napoleon
18. A Visit from the Bank
19. Pigs Gotta Stick with Pigs
20. Time to Shop
21. Napoleon’s Proposal
22. Stand Up to the Humans
23. The Water Wheel
24. Farmhouse Party
25. Winter Arrives
26. An Alliance Forms
27. No Grain, Big Surprise
28. The Rogues (Carl Cox)
29. The Inevitable
30. Napoleon is Always Right
31. Boxer Saves the Worker
32. Boxer is Hurt
33. End Up Like Them
34. Animal or Pig?
35. The Rebellion Starts Now
36. Drone Farm (Carl Cox)
37. Operation Party Pooper
38. Blue Danube
39. My Bunker My Party (Carl Cox)
40. The Dam Breaks
41. Not What They Seem
42. Animal Farm Song
ABOUT HEITOR PEREIRA
Heitor Pereira is a Brazilian composer who comes from a family of Brazilian musicians. He began his career as a guitarist, working with some of the greatest names in Brazilian music, including Milton Nascimento, Ivan Lins, and Caetano Veloso, among many others. In the early ‘90s, Pereira joined the English soul band Simply Red, with whom he made numerous records, touring with them for ten years. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Pereira entered the world of film music. Beginning as a session musician, he played on some of Hollywood’s biggest franchises of the 2000s, including The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mission Impossible: II, The Simpsons Movie, Madagascar, Man on Fire, and Domino.
His first score for film was HBO’s Real Women Have Curves. Soon after, he discovered his love of animated films, writing the score forCurious George and collaborating with Jack Johnson, tailoring his songs to the film. Since then, he has written many scores for blockbuster family hits including the Despicable Me, Smurfs, and Angry Birds franchises; acclaimed dramas such as If I Stay, A Little Bit of Heaven, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights; and romantic comedies including It’s Complicated and The Valet. Pereira’s most recent work includes the box office smashes Minions, Minions: The Rise of Gru, and Despicable Me 4; Paw Patrol: The Movie; My Little Pony: A New Generation; and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Pereira’s film scores have garnered critical acclaim and accolades, including Annie Award nominations (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Smallfoot), Hollywood Music in Media Award nominations (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), as well as ASCAP Film & TV music awards. In 2006, Pereira won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his work on “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?” with Chris Botti and Sting. In 2017, Pereira won the Emmy for Outstanding Music and Sound for his work on Sonic Sea, the NRDC-sponsored documentary about the impact of man-made sound on ocean life.
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