- Espichel
- Amsterdam
- Beach
- All Change
- A Long Goodbye
- Gun
- Weather Shy
- Postcard
- Fight
- Trip
- Betrayed
- Gone
- Evening
- Afternoon
- What About Africa
- Stay Away From Heaven
- Chapel
- On The Way Home
発売日:2001年1月23日(火)
レーベル:Chapter III Records
レビュー (Amazon)It's hardly rare for a rock or pop musician to try their hand at film scoring. But, perhaps because of the medium's minefield of time constraints, business pressures, and elevated artistic expectations, only a relative few have made the transition to full-time scoring. Dream Academy founder Nick Laird-Clowes has not only survived the journey, he's arguably elevated both his art and the medium in the process. This evocative score is a deceptively seamless fusion of his distinctive pop sensibility and a moody, mature orchestral sense that belies the musician's one-hit-wonder, Top 40 heritage. His spare use of the acoustic guitar throughout is especially effective. The score also incorporates several tracks by Laird-Clowes's modern pop project, Trashmonk, as well as some atmospheric work by longtime critics' darlings Yo La Tengo and the brooding, atmospheric modern jazz-tinged work of Woodrow Wilson Jackson III and Petra Haden (daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden).
--Jerry McCulley