I know what you’re thinking: not more of this barmy supernatural love stuff. But this soundtrack proves to be more than just a compilation of alternative and indie songs to throw into the different parts of the movie for atmosphere. At a brief, cynical glance it appears to just be a random concoction of music that would suit the angsty, never-ending love theme that Twilight has honed to perfection. However, upon listening to it and really giving each song my full attention, it proved to be quite the dark horse.

Each song holds its own very well, managing to instantly create a video in your head. Longing looks, a menagerie of good-looking superhuman creatures moving about at alarming speeds, soft, daydream moments with no words uttered between two characters and raw, charged moments where the energy is crackling within the few inches between people. It’s all here.

Few of the songs fail to paint these images in the mind; and if you listen carefully and try not to scoff at the possibility that a vampire may end up glittering in one of these little daydreams you concoct, you’ll feel the dreamy/urgent feel come up constantly.

The overall feel of the album is one of the hazy dream of adolescence – a world coated in unreality, where so much can happen. It’s a perfectly apt soundtrack laced with angsty and soft, yet powerful emotional music; it varies from the deep, raw sound of a constricting, almost drowning relationship like Florence and the Machine’s Heavy in Your Arms, which gives much potency to the unusual relationship between Edward and Bella, to the soft undulating lulling of Metric’s Eclipse (All Yours), pulling the listener in to feel the softer side of the love, the shy and careful side that is frequently overlooked.

Let’s Get Lost conjures a deep, lungs-exploding-from-so-much-emotion-OMG feeling that reaches into your core and lifts you up while still granting you underlying sorrow while The Dead Weather’s Rolling in On A Burning Tire brings to light the raw, unfiltered sound that marks Twilight‘s angsty moments so well, whether it’s the ironic underlying sexual frustration or the feverish urge for the two opposing supernatural sides to collide in a flurry of glitter and fur.
Ours creates that uplifting, indie-love feel to the album and is the hidden gem among the dreamy and the subtle angst, bringing to life an album that I had so foolishly expected to be duller than a Forks’ day.

Out of all the musical treats on the soundtrack, this is the keeper as it creates a wonderful contrast to the other songs, so much so that it jumps right out at you within the first ten seconds and blazes a trail across your mind, branding itself there to play out for days until you finally hit the play button again.

From start to finish this album doesn’t disappoint, whether you’re a diehard Twilight fan or simply a music-lover. It gives the fan all the music they need to dream wistfully about their favourite book/film and to add to their Twilight playlist until the next film. All to be expected, but the unexpected if that and it gives the music-lover an abundance of musical gems and the chance to find other artists they might like.

All in all, this one is definitely worth the purchase, and I highly recommend it simply because the songs are so damn good.

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