Much like its eponymous protagonist, Scott Pilgrim - Played by the always geeked out Michael Cera, The soundtrack to Edgar Wrights new brilliant 64-bit inspired comic book adaptation is full of moments of uncanny nostalgia... Frank Black lines up next to Beck (at his kooky jagged art-punk best) - alongside Blood Red Shoes and flashes of the aweosme Crash & The Boys... Its a smorgasbord of Alt-rock awesomeness that more than justifies the price for the epic double CD set, and will be a feature of fast cars driven by geeky boys and girls in stropy bursts for summers, and autumns and inters to come...
The SCOTT PILGRIM Soundtrack sounds like what would happen if you were to fall into a trippy rainbow infused timearp back in time to the mid to late 90's, with over sized Lumberjack shirts, and jeans with turn-ups - its the musical equivalent of watching MY SO CALLED LIFE or SAVED BY THE BELL... so Nineties infused, and retor sounding that you yearn for those days when a single could be at Number 1 for 24 weeks, and a band could literally blow the world away with a single song...
This is MUSIC. not this transcient pseudo-pop rubbish we have to imbibe for the thirty seconds popstars are famous for now...
This is from a time when music was LIFE.
Edgar Wright has chosen some dazzlers here... Sex Bob-OMB (aka: Beck writing for Scotts band in the Film) is all explosive out of the gates Pop-punk alt-rock - full of bubblegum attitude and middle finger to the mainstream... A delirious and beuatiful burst of joy in musical form.
Frank Black of the Pixies throws his opus - I HEAR RAMONA SING into the fray, and it runs away wth your heart... Plumtree HAVE to make an appearance, with their brilliant SCOTT PILGRIM being the inspiration for the whole affair... Black Lips dazzle with their bass heavy O Katrina! - a blast of Pixie-ish/Beach Boys inspired Surf rock... Like The Ramones playing Beach Boy covers...
All In All, its a soundtrack that deserves front of place in your collection - and if, like me, you remember a time when you could nary turn a radio on without music like this blaring out in all its glory... then you will fall head over converse allstar adorned feet for it...
Scott Pilgrim may have fought the World... But this soundtrack saved my faith in its music...
God Bless you Scott Pilgrim...
God Bless You Beck et al...
God Bless you Edgar Wright.... You seriously can do no wrong...
Don't just sit there...
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