Twilight: New Moon soundtrack reviewed

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By Joe Bosso
Indie rock for the masses?
Twilight haters - that is, those who aren't tweens or moms obsessed by last year's high school vampire flick and Stephenie Meyer's book series - might have a hard time maintaining their ire with the release of the soundtrack to Twilight: New Moon, the sequel to that first film.
 
While the maiden CD featured some spot-on, slam-dunk tracks by Muse, Paramore and even an affecting Jeff Buckley-ish performance by film star and heartthrob-of-the-moment Robert Pattinson, it also offered generic, knotheaded rock courtesy of Linkin Park and Collective Soul.
The good news for the new disc is that the trimumvirate of author Meyer, director Chris Weitz and music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas have ditched the schlubs and have given us an alt rock sampler with a handful of devastatingly good songs.
The bad news is, some of the tracks are epic fails, in embarrassingly obvious ways.

1. Meet Me On The Equinox - Death Cab For Cutie

The darlings of Bellingham, Washington are on the verge of mainstream success, and they just might make it with this way-too-on-the-nose cut. Over a minor-key, arpeggiated riff and a syncopated snare drum, singer Benjamin Gibbard tries to emote about how "everything ends...everything ends." But he sounds like a bored Geddy Lee, without Lee's sublime quirkiness.
The biggest drawback, however, worse than a chorus that should surge but falls flat, is that the lyrics smack of work-for-hire-itis. There's no teeth, no hunger.

2. Friends - Band Of Skulls

This trio from Southampton, England, have 'buzz band' written all over them, and they grab the brass ring with this deliciously wicked winner. A grimey, greasy guitar and bass riff is offset by a poppy tambourine, the perfect musical bed for Russell Mardsden's left-of-center vocals. Oh - and there's an axe solo that's positively nuclear.

3. Hearing Damage - Thom Yorke

Radiohead's 15 Step served as the end credits song on the first Twilight (the kind of number you sit through even if you don't care who the second unit's catering crew was), and now Thom Yorke has served up an absorbing original.
Over pulsating electronica, Yorke speaks/sings as if he's telecommunicating from another planet. It's less a song as it is a mood piece, but it's one that gently works its way into your soul. By turns soothing and unsettling, this is Yorke indulging his inner Pink Floyd, as he's done in the past, to wondrous effect.

4. Possibility - Lykke Li

When was the last time you heard a singer who made you feel as though you were experiencing music through brand-new ears? That's the power of Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li. This stark, piano-based hymn is spiritual stuff, and Li's arresting vocal powers will have you on your knees in worship.

5. A White Demon Love Song - The Killers

From the let's-try-real-real-hard-to-write-a-vampire-movie-song files, we have this lugubrious letdown from a band normally known for stirring anthems. A wealth of musical ideas can be a true bounty if the segues sound natural; this is merely a hodgepodge, and singer Brand
on Flowers can't make sense of the incongruity. A serviceable, all-too-brief guitar solo is, well, all too brief.

6. Satellite Heart - Anya Marina

Marina's breathy, sex-kitten-sung songs have been featured on numerous TV shows, and perhaps they work as small-screen snippets. This number, a fingerpicked acoustic bedroom ballad, is pure schtick. Marina's child-like vocals are too mannered to be emotive, and she's too wrapped up in the idea of her own preciousness to realize she's not connecting.

7. I Belong To You (New Moon remix) - Muse

You've gotta hand it to rock's newest kings of We Can Do Anything: they've taken an intriguing cut from their current album The Resistance and made it truly swing. By de-emphasizing the piano, pumping up the guitar and pushing the vocals front and center, a strong melody that was lacking in the original emerges.
Fans of The Resistance already know this as I Belong To You (+ Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix), and mainman Matthew Bellamy even sang some of that version in French. Here he parlez-vous's no francais, but his sentiments are just as romantic and urgent.


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