Owl City Turns To An Owl Warrior "To The Sky"

As if a movie entirely about owls wasn't awesome enough - for the record, the only thing that could make this film any better would be UNICORNS - "Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'hoole" just upgraded itself to even more a million times awesome with Owl City's theme-song for the film, "To The Sky." It perfectly describes the bird tale with its lyrics such as "So touch your feathers to the breeze, and leave the ground."
Directed by Zack Snyder, the upcoming Australian/American computer-animated film based on the book series "Guardians of Ga'Hoole" by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. The movie is also fits the bands name, and will hits U.S. theaters this Friday. "To the Sky" is the only song featured in the Original Soundtrack compilation. The rest of the music uses David Hirschfelder's scores which are available as downloads.
"It is such an incredible honor to be part of this film," says the electronic brainchild of Adam Young. "As a fan of both the children's book series growing up, and Zack Snyder's work as a director, having my music included is pretty surreal. I've been waiting for someone to make a movie like this for some time now. I'm endlessly grateful to be involved." Naturally, then, with the name of the artist and the film, the accompanying video is filled with owls. The overall sound of "To the Sky" is less intricately fussy then the fanciful breakthrough hit "Fireflies." Here the sound is looser and more relaxed but just as catchy.
Owl City is an American Second Wave synthpop musical project by Young, who certainly knows how to make creation of a winning pop melody sound effortless. The video focused largely on the movie's scenes of animated owl warriors. It also captures frontman Young in the screening room, writing the song and recording it. At the end of the video, Young turns to an owl. With a new album "Sky Sailing" scheduled for a fall release, Young's future is as exciting, expansive and as mellifluous as his music. "I've loved every minute of it so far, and I'm looking forward to what's going to happen next." So are we.