A New Moon is rising

Well, what can I say? Shining – oh I’m sorry, SPARKLING – vampires aside, New Moon has a pretty good ensemble when it comes to the soundtrack. It’s OK, you aren’t the only one who moan in discomfort and guilt when they announce the tracklist for the soundtrack a few months back. I am sure the entire indie-hood went on an uniamous “Whhhyyyy…???!!!” that day.

Unlike the Twilight soundtrack, this one is more mellow and minus the emo punk music from Linkin Park and Paramore. The resonating and slow Satellite Heart by Anya Marina (who reminds me of Boomkat’s Taryn Manning and MoZella), and the hauntingly quiet and distant Rosyln by Bon Iver and St Vincent, and Editors‘ No Sound but the Wind with Tom Smith’s chilling bass vocals together with the steady strums of the keys that is worth a tear or two.

Other outstanding lyrical tracks include Death Cab for Cutie with their signature Gibbardish track Meet Me On the Equinox, Sea Wolf’s perky and poetic The Violet Hour - “Your lips are nettles / Your tongue is wine / Your laughter’s liquid / But your body’s pine”, and OK Go’s waltz-like Shooting the Moon.

So, let’s just pretend the movie doesn’t exist, or just agree without seeing it that it sucks balls. (But if you still need proof, read here and here and here). And go straight to enjoying the only thing that is good in the package – the music.

Download Editors’ No Sound But The Wind HERE.