14 DAY TRIAL // “Twilight” is turning out to be a success in more areas than one: it is a hit series of novels, an extremely lucrative movie franchise, and sells merchandise. Speaking strictly of music, here too “Twilight” is a smashing hit, with the soundtrack album for “New Moon,” the second film in the franchise, already being reviewed and, to little surprise, getting the warmest response.
Entertainment Weekly is among the first to get to listen the “New Moon” soundtrack in full and, according to it, it will offer fans an amazing experience. As EW puts it, some music scores enhance the movie experience, while others, more lucky, transcend it. The “New Moon” score is poised to do both, combining sounds and artists that capture the uniqueness of the story transposed on film, while also bringing to the table their own sound, different from any other.
All in all, the “New Moon” soundtrack deserves an A for being one of the best indie-music compilations out there to date, EW says, and that still applies even when taking it out of the larger context of the franchise. It’s an album that works its way up to completely engulfing the listener into the story, with tracks that flow from one into the other without sudden stops or unexpected breaks. In other words, it’s a release that will please not only “Twilight” fans, but all music lovers in general.
“After the success of the first installment, music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas (‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy’) gets her pick of the alt litter here, with each contributing original, previously unreleased material: From the opening chords of Death Cab for Cutie’s dusky guitar rapture ‘Meet Me on the Equinox’ to the spooky robot-ennui of Thom Yorke’s ‘Hearing Damage’ and Grizzly Bear’s gorgeous folk-pop pastoral ‘Slow Life,’ ‘New Moon’ rarely falters. A peacocking remix of Muse’s shamelessly operatic ‘I Belong to You’ becomes a Bowie-esque glam-rock stomper. In its wake, Bon Iver and St. Vincent quietly unfurl ‘Rosyln,’ a duet of hushed, almost church-like beauty.” EW writes in the review.
The album is nothing short of a “mixtape with teeth,” a unique and beautiful combination of unexpected elements that, surprisingly, do extremely well together. “‘Moon’ (due in stores Oct. 20) yields several happy revelations from its lower-marquee names: Nordic songstress Lykke Li’s nearly a cappella ‘Possibility’ is a lovely little Swedish snowflake, and jokey rockers OK Go achieve an impressive sort of Flaming Lips-y quirk-gravitas on the sprawling, cinematic ‘Shooting the Moon.’ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s acoustic campfire lament ‘Done All Wrong’ segues seamlessly into the jaunty, Strokes-ian guitar fuzz of Hurricane Bells’ ‘Monsters.’” the same publication further says of the album.