Night Furries & Milkshakes

Hi-ho! No Soundtrack Outcasts today, but rather two film scores that deserve all of the limelight they've thus received (as always, tell me what you think). First, a small part of the score for Dreamworks' "How To Train Your Dragon" by John Powell. Gorgeous themes, boisterous brass and bagpipes for a Nordic/Irish sound, warm strings and flutters--fun and powerful and unashamedly smile-inducing:

"This is Berk"



"Test Drive"



"Romantic Flight"



Now a total gear shift. Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" has a disconcerting soundtrack fashioned by Johnny Greenwood, a member of Radiohead. The songs work best and rile your blood most when you pair them with their respective on-screen scenes (durhay), but their discordant percussion and upsetting, pulsing unease still loft them high enough on their own to disquiet you:

"Proven Lands"



"Oil"



"Convergence"




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French Atmosphere

Around for over 10 years, Air is a French synth-electronica duo. They aren't really club techno; though some of their beats near the border, don't go slapping that stereotype too quickly. It's their myriad of fun, slip-beat, and poignant themes which makes them both minorly ambiant and cooly pigeon-headable. Their official YouTube channel doesn't allow embedding, but take a sample from these 200% virus-free hyperlinks to said port and tell me what you think:

Sing Sang Sung

Playground Love

Don't Be Light

How Does It Make You Feel

Alpha Beta Gaga

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