Sinners’ Spotify Easter Eggs Offer an Inspired, Immersive Lore Discovery

If you watched Sinners this past weekend and haven’t been able to get the visuals and the music out of your mind, you might want to check out the official soundtrack and playlist on Spotify. Not only is the whole soundtrack with performances by newcomer Miles Caton, who plays Preacher Boy, a featured option but there’s also the score from director Ryan Coogler’s frequent collaborator Ludwig Göransson, and a curation of blues music the duo cite as touchstones for the film.

If you mess around with some of the songs, however, you’ll uncover that the tracks which list “Sinners Movie” lead to a clickable profile for the film under artists. Once there if you scroll down to the bio area it will read, “There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjuring spirits from the past and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land they called them Firekeepers. And in West Africa they’re called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities, but it also attracts evil.” Which is how the film opens, introducing its thematic through line about how music represents the call the vampires flock to.

Keen-eyed fans will notice the main image on top of that is the wood carving art from the film depicting Preacher Boy—and then if you click that, it will open up a scrollable carousel of clippings.

The first few are more wooden carvings but past those you’ll find newspaper Easter eggs we’ve collected below, along with the carving imagery. As a fan of interactive movie menus having a trail to more in-universe fun (think the viral campaign from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy), this was really fun to dig into.

The newspaper clippings give us background on how Smoke and Stack’s hustle to steal the booze from the rival Italian and Irish mobs gave way to fighting among them while the twins got off scot-free—that is, until the vampire’s came a-calling. There’s also a paper story that is dated even earlier where an Irish ship was found to be the scene of a bloody crime, which is how we can figure Remmick (the film’s main vampire) arrived in America.

We hope there’s more like this coming up for the film’s release and maybe even some Halloween experiential haunt action.

And here’s the link to the playlist on Spotify, which as an added bonus features a new song from frequent songstress Hailee Steinfeld too:

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