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- Summary: Sigur Ros singer Jon Thor Birgisson composed the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie We Bought A Zoo.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Soundtracks, Stage & Screen, Film Music
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 13
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Mixed: 6 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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UncutMar 14, 2012It's certainly easy to believe that these sublime pieces could have inspired such a profound reaction [from director Cameron Crowe]. [Apr 2012, p.81]
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Dec 7, 2011It feels more or less indistinguishable from a Sigur Rós album.
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Jan 3, 2012This collection stands as a fine next step in Jónsi's evolving career.
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Dec 7, 2011It's all lovely and certainly more immediately engaging and compact than Jónsi's mostly-instrumental Riceboy Sleeps multimedia project from 2009.
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Mar 15, 2012He's devised a musical backdrop that subtly evokes the innocence, warmth and zoophiliac empathy of the film's message.
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Jan 13, 2012We Bought a Zoo is good enough to quench our thirst for either a new Jónsi or Sigur Rós album.
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MojoJul 18, 2012It can perfectly capture the film's conflicted moods of sadness and euphoria, but just as easily turn cloying and sickly. [Jun 2012, p.87]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Dec 23, 2011This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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