Garden State [LP]

Overview

The soundtrack to Zach Braff's Garden State is nearly as much of a piece with the film as the similarly sweet, quirky combinations of sound and vision in Wes Anderson's films and soundtracks. Garden State, however, is more modern in its outlook and more emotionally direct, with a mixtape earnestness belied by using not one but two songs from the Shins' Oh, Inverted World. "New Slang" is an obvious choice, as the song just seems to grow in stature as time passes, but "Caring Is Creepy," Oh, Inverted World's vulnerable, ever-so-slightly unhinged opening track, is not, and adds to the personal, diary-like feel of the album. The bright poignancy of the Shins' tracks stands out even more among the low-key melancholy of songs like Coldplay's "Don't Panic," Remy Zero's "Fair," and Colin Hay's "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You." The inclusion of Hay's track, Bonnie Somerville's "Winding Road," and the Cary Brothers' "Blue Eyes" shows that Garden State doesn't go for the hipster, too-cool-for-school poses that one might expect from the soundtrack of a hot indie movie, even with the inclusion of Iron & Wine's cover of the Postal Service's "Such Great Heights." Still, there's something of a collegiate feel to the soundtrack, especially with the re-rediscovery of Nick Drake ("One of These Things First") and Simon & Garfunkel ("The Only Living Boy in New York") as well as the tentative forays into electronica and trip-hop like Zero 7's "In the Waiting Line," Frou Frou's "Let Go," and Thievery Corporation's "Lebanese Blonde." Perhaps this collegiate feel comes from the fact that those years are often the time when many people are the most ready and willing to explore music that is new to them (but not necessarily new), but, as the success of Garden State's soundtrack shows, any time can be the right time. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date:	08/05/2014
Label:	O.S.T. / Sony Legacy
UPC:	0888430760110
Rank:	23324

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Don't Panic  -  Coldplay
2. Caring Is Creepy  -  Shins
3. In the Waiting Line  -  Zero 7
4. New Slang  -  Shins
5. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You  - Colin Hay
6. Blue Eyes  - Cary Brothers
7. Fair  -  Remy Zero

Disc 2

8. One Of These Things First [Album Version]  - Nick Drake
9. Lebanese Blonde [Album Version]  -  Thievery Corporation
10. The Only Living Boy in New York  -  Simon & Garfunkel
11. Such Great Heights [Album Version]  -  Iron & Wine
12. Let Go [Album Version]  -  Frou
13. Winding Road [Album Version]  - Bonnie Somerville

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Cary Brothers   Primary Artist
Colin Hay   Primary Artist
Zero 7   Primary Artist
The Shins   Primary Artist
Frou Frou   Primary Artist
Nick Drake   Primary Artist
Bonnie Somerville   Primary Artist
Coldplay   Primary Artist
Simon & Garfunkel   Primary Artist
Remy Zero   Primary Artist
Thievery Corporation   Primary Artist
Frou   Primary Artist
Iron & Wine   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Will Champion   Composer
Sam Beam   Producer
Roy Halee   Producer
Remy Zero   Producer
David Bottrill   Producer
Chris Martin   Composer
Zach Braff   Executive Soundtrack Producer
Shelby Tate   Composer
Eric Hilton   Composer,Producer
Ben Gibbard   Composer
Jonny Buckland   Composer
Robert Kraft   Executive in Charge of Music
Rob Garza   Composer,Producer
Nick Drake   Composer
The Shins   Producer
Art Garfunkel   Producer
Danielle Diego   Music Supervisor
Christine Bergren   Music Clearance
Dave Donnelly   Mastering
Hooshik Bayliss   Art Direction
Amanda Scheer-Demme   Music Supervisor
August Cinjun Tate   Composer
Buck Damon   Music Supervisor
Geoff Bywater   Music Supervisor
Bonnie Somerville   Composer
Paul Simon   Composer,Producer
Ken Nelson   Producer
Imogen Heap   Composer,Producer
Colin Hay   Composer,Producer
Joe Boyd   Producer
Chad Fischer   Producer
James Mercer   Producer,Composer
Coldplay   Producer
Sam Hardaker   Composer
Zero 7   Producer
Cary Brothers   Composer
Henry Binns   Composer
Sophie Barker   Composer
Dave Dale   Producer
Guy Sigsworth   Producer,Composer
Jimmy Tamborello   Composer
Guy Berryman   Composer