- Record Label: Chop Shop/Atlantic
- Release Date: Oct 16, 2009
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Think of New Moon as a sort of survey course in new-now-next rock: a mixtape with teeth.
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Grizzly Bear contributes a typically gorgeous psych-folk incantation called "Slow Life" (with guest vocals from Beach House's Victoria Legrand), and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon duets with St. Vincent on "Roslyn," which could warm even a vampire's heart.
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Despite a few upbeat moments that stick out like a thumb that isn't sore, songs like Grizzly Bear and Victoria Legrand's "Slow Life," Editors' "No Sound But the Wind," and Bon Iver and St. Vincent's lovely, truly odd "Roslyn" are morose enough for die-hard Twilight fans and stylish enough to please the most discerning music snobs.
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When a soundtrack works this well, with each track slotting naturally into a strongly cohesive body of work, you begin to wonder about the clamour that is sure to come from bands and singer songwriters to put their work forward towards featuring on the next film's soundtrack.
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack is an excellent album of cool songs featuring some of today’s celebrated indie artists.
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Invariably the guitars are played in a low, urgent growl, uniting many of the songs with a dissatisfied drone.
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The music on New Moon lives up to the story because it captures the day-to-day bleakness, along with the sexual obsessions seething under the surface.
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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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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.
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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.
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