Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar work together on Jack Kerouac album

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar have teamed up, recording an album’s worth of material inspired by one of their heroes, Jack Kerouac.

They originally got together in 2007 to record music for the forthcoming Jack Kerouac documentary One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. That session has exploded into an entire, full-length album which has the same title as the movie which inspired it. Gibbard and Farrar wrote and performed all the songs together, with lyrics taken from Kerouac’s 1962 novel Big Sur.

One Fast Move or I’m Gone is due October 20 on F-Stop/Atlantic, the day before the 40th anniversary of Kerouac’s death. The documentary will also be out on October 20, and you can either buy the Gibbard/Farrar album by itself on CD or vinyl or packaged with the DVD. There will also be a deluxe CD/DVD package that includes a copy of Kerouac’s novel and a 40-page book on the documentary.

One Fast Move or I’m Gone:
01 California Zephyr
02 Low Life Kingdom
03 Willamine
04 All in One
05 Breathe Our Iodine
06 These Roads Don’t Move
07 Big Sur
08 One Fast Move or I’m Gone
09 Final Horrors
10 Sea Engines
11 The Void
12 San Francisco