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lot great, butit’s airly good.

[he sound is consistently polished and airy, reminis- ent of ‘‘Wicked Game,’’ Leonard Cohenand

ae If hip depression is your thing, this one’s or you. If you like music with notes and instruments n’ things in it, pass on.

Pwo of the songs here attain the beautiful, ethereal juality the whole album is striving for. Canada’s own ane Siberry walks away with top song honours for ler gorgeous ‘*Calling All Angels,’’ which features a urprisingly affecting vocal performance by Siberry erhaps inspired by the presence of back-up singer .d. lang) and sadly descending viola. Second best is ulee Cruise’s whispered cover of ‘‘Summer Kisses,

Winter Tears,’’ produced by David Lynch and it jounds it.

expected Elvis Costello to blow the lid off this eather-weight soundtrack, but even Mr. Passion is retty subdued here with his eerie, almost Bowie-ish fever of the Kinks’ ‘‘Days’’ (an idea that almost sent ne dancing ajig). R.E.M.’s ‘‘Fretless’’ is another Minor pleasure by a minor band. ‘‘Sax and Violins’’ Sthe Talking Heads first recorded output in a while. he track sounds like a less tropical outtake from Yaked, Also hitting the mark is Daniel Lanois’ folk/ 0 ul *’ Sleeping in the Devil’s Bed,’’ Crime and the sity Solution’s ‘*The Adversary,’’ and Nick Cave and he Bad Seeds’ bizarre, theatrical ‘(Ill Love You) ithe End of the World,”’

M\ pearing ina more or less previously released form ire U2’s *‘Untilthe End of the World,’’ one of the yest songs here, but | already have it so it’s disquali-

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turing Magic and Loss’ instrumental opener, ‘‘Dorita,’’ also a great song, but it’s just a remix; when I buy a soundtrack I want new stuff, anything previously released is a waste of time and a rip-off. So what’s left... one, two, three, four instrumentals, a Depeche Mode number, who at least sound comfort- able being boring (practice makes perfect, I guess), a pretentious, boring piece of foolishness by Patti Smith (believe it or not, the same one from Horses) and Fred Smith (who used to be Fred ‘‘Sonic’’ Smith of the MCS - [sigh] times change...) and throwaways by Neneh Cherry, CAN (not Can, I would assume) and T-Bone Burnett. But hey, that’s... ten decent or better songs, most of which are brand new (orat least remixed so you don’t feel totally robbed). Soif you think the music on David Lynch movies is the coolest stuff on the planet, you'll love this. But if you’ re just into R.E.M. or Elvis Costello, you can wait for the new albums, where these songs will probably resur- face. Soundtracks have a short life span and in general I think are useless. But this one seems... don’t you hate reviews where the guy won’t come out and say if it’s good or horseshit. Yeah, life’s rough.

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