My Favourite Soundtrack
How Twilight Ushered in a New Dawn For Movie Soundtracks
Ten years since its release, we look back on the soundtrack that brought indie acts like Bon Iver and St Vincent to the mainstream.
The 'Chungking Express' Soundtrack Makes Repetition Beautiful
By hearing the same songs over and over, we enter a daydream: one expertly detailed with the nuanced pains and pleasures of life.
The Saddest Girl to Ever Hold a Martini
Sixteen years on, the ‘Vanilla Sky’ soundtrack captures the maudlin dream of trying to live through someone else, and how life "is never as sweet without the sour”.
The ‘Pi’ Soundtrack Is Still a Classic Aronofsky Sonic Headfuck
Twenty years on, the number-obsessed movie has just as powerful a musical mix of the intelligent and the insane.
‘The Beach’ Soundtrack Was a Balearic Masterpiece
On its 18th birthday, we look at how the film’s soundtrack of chill-out and techno blurs the coastline between Utopia and Dystopia.
The 'Pretty In Pink' Soundtrack Was a Gateway to Alt-Pop and Proletarian Revolution
Yes... the John Hughes film is as weighty as that sounds!
Reflecting on the Donnie Darko Soundtrack, An Opera of Teenage Angst
Fifteen years after the release of Richard Kelly’s cult classic, we take a look at how it’s musical backdrop became so culturally and emotionally significant.
My Favorite Soundtrack: 'Up the Academy'
'Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy' was a commercial bomb but its soundtrack is ace.
The Lost in Translation Soundtrack Makes me Pine for Every Stranger I Was Too Scared to Give my Number To
Coppola's choice of songs will turn anyone into an emotional sap capable of actual feelings.
My Favorite Soundtrack: 'Adventureland'
An 80s reimagining of your adolescence in which Aviici becomes Falco, Odd Future become Rush and “White Noise” by Disclosure becomes “Let The Music Play” by Shannon.
My Favourite Soundtrack: 'Clueless'
Clueless is a shiny, coming of age film as ingrained in teen culture as The Breakfast Club, Clearasil and regrettable fumbles at the end of term party.