{"id":41790,"date":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/new-moon-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"new-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/new-moon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

To get this out of the way, I’ve read three out of four of the Twilight<\/i> books and I am not a fan. I’ve seen the first film. Also not a fan.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

There is the much-pointed-out point to be pointed out that this is in essence a teen film, and one\u00a0that takes itself far too seriously. This is not the Wuthering Heights<\/i> of this generation, this is not Romeo And Juliet<\/i>, although the story manages to blatantly capitalise off these works without carrying a micro-crumb of the same merit. There is nothing likeable about characters who have no life outside of each other (this goes for Romeo and Juliet too), but when this is\u00a0magnified and we are forced to accept it as heroic, it all gets a bit sickening. My opinion towards whatever medium of the Twilight<\/i> saga that I’m exposed to is that it lacks substance of any order. My expectations are that the sequel, like its predecessor, will be filled with the same copious levels of pregnant pauses in lines that require no pregnancy, lots of Kirsten Stewart running her fingers through her hair brought on by the stress of dating a dead person — and a surprisingly decent soundtrack.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

With the New Moon <\/i>soundtrack, the impressive lineup is pretty rampant from the get go, with input from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bon Iver, Muse, Thom Yorke, The Killers, Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, OK Go and Editors. I\u2019m trying really hard to sidestep the cynicism that keeps creeping in here, but I\u2019m struggling to see how this film could prove so inspirational. Whatever the reason for these appearances (money, intimidation, money, threat of death, money\u2026.) the tracks on this disc have cohered well enough to form an unquestionably good collection. And if something is genuinely and substantially good you can\u2019t really call it a guilty pleasure so it\u2019s earned the right to be removed from the dark corners of my collection that houses the likes of ABBA and Bon Jovi.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

My first taste of the New Moon <\/i>soundtrack <\/i>came with Death Cab For Cutie\u2019s \u201cMeet Me On The Equinox.\u201d This is a band that I would probably defend if they decided to cover \u201cIt\u2019s A Small World After All,\u201d but on initial listening the song just sounded a little too contrived and phoned-in. It took a while to get over a chorus that was just made up of histrionic variations of the phrase \u201ceverything ends,\u201d but my DCFC fan mentality eventually kicked in and I caved to liking it. Persist, it\u2019s a grower.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201cPossibility\u201d by Lykke Li and \u201cRoslyn\u201d from Bon Iver & St. Vincent were great finds and comprise two of the most ethereal tracks on the album that are worthy of attention. \u201cA White Demon Love Song\u201d by The Killers and \u201cNo Sound But The Wind\u201d by Editors can be skipped over with a clear conscience. Some relief from the relentless sense of morose-ness comes in the form of Muse\u2019s \u201cI Belong To You\u201d and acoustic track \u201cShooting The Moon\u201d by OK Go, but even still this marks a stretch towards the upbeat. Even with my tolerance for melancholic music, fifteen tracks of it verges on excessive.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Fair enough, it’s a film about vampires;\u00a0any compilation in this oeuvre shouldn’t really welcome contributions from Kylie Minogue, and a bit of brooding and self-piteous acoustic is called for.\u00a0But all the same there is the sense that for the film at hand the tracks chosen can seem a bit unduly weighted. This isn\u2019t an album to crack out in the early hours or without having some dispirited reason to. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

If you can stomach high levels of the sullen and the sombre, then the New Moon <\/i>soundtrack <\/i>is a great collection of new material from artists who definitely warrant your time. And for those who can\u2019t seem to see past their loathing for the Twilight<\/i> franchise, remove the cover and voil\u00e0, awesome compilation.<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":30150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6722],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-41790","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-original-soundtrack","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41790"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}