Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Original Soundtrack

This is the first collaboration for the frequent collaborators since Reznor and Ross won the Best Original Score Oscar last year for the movie The Social Network. Atticus Ross had produced the last four Nine Inch Nails (Reznor's band) records, but it looks like the two have really found their niche making soundtracks together. Both Network and Dragon Tattoo OSTs are imbued with a sense of icy detachment and foreboding. The music is often simultaneously aggressive and passively melancholic, eliciting a dystopian world of caution, anxiety, and reflection. There are a ton of textures and ideas within this soundtrack that Reznor couldn't effectively explore under the Nine Inch Nails banner, not withstanding the aggro cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", with vocals from Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, that opens the record.

Buy this record, take a couple vaperizor hits, have sex with someone, then go stand precipitously close to the edge of a cliff and ponder the infinity of space.

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Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch- Twin Peaks Archive

For those of us who loved Twin Peaks and it's varied music this will be a surreal walk down a crooked lane. The story revolved around the investigation into the death of Laura Palmer, popular high school girl in Twin Peaks, WA who led a double life as a drug addict and prostitute. The show bubbled over with outlandish characters, from the log lady to the dwarf in the red room to the evil spirit Bob. There was the goody two-shoes best friend Donna, Laura's football star boyfriend Bobby, Laura's other boyfriend, the brooding, motorcycle-riding James, the lodge owner's seductive daughter Audrey, the FBI agent Dale Cooper and his obsession with pie, the abusive logging trucker Leo and his tortured wife Shelly, and of course Laura's twisted, domineering father  Leland. So many zany characters in one show made this 1990-1991 serial a delirious treat to watch. My only complaints with this soundtrack is that there are 5 different version of the Twin Peaks theme song and 3 versions of Freshly Squeezed (the finger-snapping Pink Panther-esque jazz music that played whenever a character was plotting something devious), plus no music from the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me movie is included, specifically the awesome song played during the scene when Laura and Donna meet Jacques at One Eyed Jacks.  There were several theories as to the town's strange occurrences and behaviors, including the idea that an evil spirit inhabited the town's electrical wires, but I'm not sure it was ever definitively solved. Either way this will be a real treat for Twin Peaks fans.

Buy this record for a rainy evening stroll in search of that boxcar in the woods.

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