Demob Happy

FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT At some point over the last decade David Holmes’ brand of retro mishmashery seemed to fade from the zeitgeist despite the fact that the Northern Irish producer was reaching a wider audience (and no doubt keeping his bank manager happy) with soundtrack work. His turn to the [...]

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Quite interesting, incidentally … 6/10 I have been a keen advoate of all things Damon Albarn post-Graham Coxon (i.e., Blur’s ‘Think Tank‘ and beyond) so was understandably quite excited by the album release of ‘Monkey, Journey to the West‘. I had not seen the Chinese opera-spectacular which this album scores but I didn’t let that [...]

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5 x 2 = excellent film soundtrack 8/10 While ‘Cinq Fois Deux‘ the movie concentrates on a failed marriage, deconstructed in reverse chronology, the soundtrack is a more romantic proposition. As I have no frame of reference for this type of music – classic Italian crooners from the 1960s and 1970s – I can’t really [...]

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Tokyo dreaming 9/10 One of the best soundtracks in recent memory (the best since Morvern Callar – great music, shame about the movie), Lost in Translation is an evocative collection of tracks that recall the unique atmosphere of the film. My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields complements tracks by the likes of Squarepusher (in one of [...]

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Better than the movie itself 8/10 It was an average film made more memorable by an unusually discerning soundtrack containing some classics you may already own and some nuggets you may not. German avant-rockers Can make several appearances by donating two of their more upbeat classics (‘I want more’ and the brilliant ‘Spoon’) and some [...]

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