Clint Mansell – Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack

If you listened to “View from the Rainbow” from Cardamar, you heard 3 Clint Mansell songs from this album. That’s what inspired me to purchase it. Unfortunately, I didn’t find a whole lot more on the cd.

The best tracks by far are the ones named something about ghosts. Yes, there are actually 4 tracks with that name. There are slight variations, but all of the tracks are about the same. There are other good ones too. Summer Overture, for example, is a good track that isn’t named ghost anything. Any of the songs relating to emotions tend to be rather interesting in various ways, but there are other tracks that just seem out of place with genres such as House or Jazz cropping up. I didn’t particularly enjoy those tracks, but I was more disappointed by the lack of variety on the disc. I realize that in a movie certain songs might keep cropping up, but I don’t think the soundtrack needs to be set up in the same way. The few other songs are not good enough to correct for what I see as a major shortcoming. To be brief, I would call this cd OK. If you like chillout, etc., you might want to pick up the disc used or just get the ghost tracks off of iTunes or something of the like.