Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Soundtrack

This is the soundtrack for the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and not for the television show. The movie depicts the last days of a drug addicted, sexually exploited beauty queen, Laura Palmer, in a small, isolated north western town in the U.S.A. This girl is subsequently murdered by an evil spirit when it takes over the body and mind of a family member. Needless to say, the music on the soundtrack is very dark, eerie and sombre and the album is not a mood booster, rather more something to play if you are feeling maudlin or depressed. Angelo Badalamenti composed the music for the film, just as he did for the preceding television show. Whilst some of the ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes a bad film is saved by a particularly brilliant soundtrack, but that's not the case for Angelo Badalamenti's score for the messy Twin Peaks movie 'Fire Walk With Me,' an attempt to redefine the popular series as a feature film franchise following its TV cancellation that ultimately failed because the film was so unsatisfying. It's not completely awful, but in presenting the events in the last week of doomed teenager Laura Palmer's life that were slowly and tantalisingly revealed over the course of about twenty episodes, it's redundant and demystifying while trying to offer something new to fans in the form of over-the-top David Lynch weirdness jut for the sake ...  Read the complete review