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Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack

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  • Death Cab for Cutie.

If there's one aspect that unites modern teen movies, it's got to be their outstanding lack of coolness (anything by John Hughes, of course, is exempt from this generalisation).

That's where the Twilight saga yet again breaks the mould. While anyone besides teen girls, Twi-hard twenty-somethings and their mothers would turn their noses up at the film of the simpering supernatural romance, you'd be hard pressed to find a hipster who wouldn't take a second look at the soundtrack.

Like last year's original, the soundtrack to New Moon is a well-thought-out compliment to the movie. Consider the opener, Meet Me At The Equinox from the intensely talented Death Cab For Cutie. Written for the movie, it's certainly not one of their greatest, but if it introduces a new audience to the band (who, incidentally, come from the deliciously grey, rainy state of Washington, where everybody's favourite vampire family also live) that's a plus.

Where the album suffers, is in it's lack of a certifiable hit. Where the first album has Paramore's Decode, New Moon, like the film itself, often finds itself trapped in dreary, morbid teenage heartbreak. What saves it is that those sounds come courtesy of the likes of Thom Yorke, The Killers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Editors.

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