- Record Label: Chop Shop/Atlantic
- Release Date: Oct 16, 2009
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As an album, the moments of intelligent beauty aren’t quite obscured by the gloom-by-numbers and, considering how rabidly commercial this really is, that’s something of a little victory.
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The New Moon OST has all the touchstones of what is considered, by many who consider themselves cognoscenti, "good" music-- from Yorke to Grizzly Bear to the more populist Death Cab, Killers, and Muse--but it uses its tastefulness to solidify the borders of what is acceptable, not to broaden them.
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The disappointing thing about New Moon is that it could have been better.
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Much of the rest is mid-level and middle-brow, from respected artists who have done better work elsewhere.
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While Sea Wolf and Ok Go offer up a bit too much middle-of-the-road perk for the soundtrack's downcast tone, relative newcomers Band of Skulls capture a riotous youthful energy.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 54
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Mixed: 9 out of 54
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Negative: 19 out of 54
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May 29, 2011
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LeahT.Oct 20, 2009
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Jul 31, 2011poop