Album Review

Various – Scott Pilgrim Original Motion Picture Sountrack

• 17th Aug 2010

Scott pilgrim is almost upon us and as you may have been able to tell from the movie review on Glasswerk – the film team LOVED it. What really needs to be pointed out though is that you do not need to be a Shaun of the dead or even hot Fuzz fan (as i’m not) to really enjoy this new film. And whilst a lot of the visual style and flair in this film goes a long way to helping it work – no less should be said about the music soundtrack.

There is a score soundtrack – which if we get a chance to listen we’ll review – but this is the soundtrack with all(or most of) the songs that appear in the film. Now i’m hugely sceptical about these kinds of soundtracks as usually they are put together for commercial reasons only – and often include songs that don’t even appear in the film. So right now I’ll state that whether you like it or not, this is not one of those soundtracks. The songs do appear in the film and each song was picked to support the film – which they do in a big bad way.

Edgar Wright and Co have got the heavy smarts when lining the film up with the right music – and a lot of it is new material, save for the odd appearance from the likes of the Stones. The one over all creative force who go involved was Beck who wrote a lot of material – and very raw sounding material for the Sex Bob-Omb band.

There is some of the music comedy highlights as well like “I’, So Sad So very Very Sad” which is just as funny as it is watching it in the film. There is also some real thrills to be found as well as in the band Metric who provide their track “Black Sheep” which also is highlighted in the film as the song played by the band made up of both Scott and Ramona’s ex’s (this band really have something vitalising to offer!).

Like the best kind of Score – the soundtrack here makes you think of the film without disturbing your enjoyment of the music. It isn’t often you get well put together discs like this, quite often they are an embarrassing collection of crap (we’re looking at you Sex and the City 2!). But this one has a great vibe to it and some wonderful material to speak of that isn’t just the big names in music, or cheesy classics.

My only suggestion would be to see the film first – and it’s out next week so you don’t have long to wait. It’s very original and funny and should confirm Edgar Wright as a big player now.