Thanks Shay!!!

The video below is more of Hayley at the People’s Choice Awards.

The Soundtracks Examiner has a list of the best soundtracks of 2009 and New Moon was included in the list.

Below is what they had to say.
See the entire list here.

9. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (Alexandre Desplat)

Go ahead, call me a sellout, but Desplat’s motifs on this score will not leave my head. I was actually agonizing over which Desplat release to include on this list (he did seven scores for 2009), and I had narrowed it down to this one and Coco Avant Chanel. And while Coco was ultra-elegant and sophisticated, it ultimately seemed formulaic for Desplat’s ability. New Moon, on the other hand, is what happens when a composer truly immerses himself in his music. Each chord progression is a different emotion, swelling and swooning as it reaches its impending detonation. Whether or not you’ve seen the movie, it is challenging not to be moved by Desplat’s work herein.

The New Moon soundtrack was included in Film.com’s list of the top ten movie soundtracks of 2009.

Below is what they had to say.
Read the entire list here.

10. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
New Moon makes this list almost purely because of the inclusion of new material from the likes of Grizzly Bear (“Slow Life”), Thom Yorke (“Hearing Damage”), and pairing Bon Iver with St. Vincent (“Roslyn”). Whether it’s the best music for Taylor Lautner to remove his shirt to is probably up for debate.

Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas talked to Spin Magazine about the New Moon Soundtrack.

Read the entire interview here.

Here is an excerpt:

How you go about something like New Moon, which features original songs from so many artists who don’t often appear in projects this high-profile?
The work starts as soon as the script is finished and distributed. Chris Weitz, the director, had a very specific point of view about how he wanted the music to feel. There’s a lot of separation and longing and loss in the movie; the bands and lyrics and sound and arrangements had to reflect that. Some folks, like Lykke Li, the Killers, Grizzly Bear, OK Go, and Anya Marina all came into the cutting room and sat with Chris to watch the movie and talk about their contributions. Other tracks were submitted with the movie in mind. I think it’s very difficult to succeed without any context.

Thanks Alice!!

The Official Twilight MySpace page now has up a play list that has all the songs from the New Moon Soundtrack up in their entirety.

Now you can here them all before the soundtrack hits stores Friday.

I really liked the song Friends by Band of Skulls.

MTV talked with Lykke Li. She has the song Possibility on the New Moon Soundtrack.

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MTV talked with OK Go. They are featured on the New Moon Soundtrack with the song Shooting The Moon.

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According to the Official Twilight Twitter due to overwhelming demand the New Moon Soundtrack will be released early, this Friday.

Below is an official statement from Summit Entertainment posted by Twilight Lexicon.

“THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK
NEW RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH

Due to overwhelming and unprecedented demand, Chop Shop/Atlantic have announced a new release date for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK. By far the most anticipated soundtrack of the year, the compilation will now be released this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, four days earlier than originally scheduled. Last year’s TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACK debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. It has remained on the Billboard 200 chart for 48 consecutive weeks.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon hits theatres nationwide Friday, November 20th.

Order the soundtrack at Amazon.

Thanks to everyone who sent emails!!

Read the entire interview at MTV.

Amazon now has previews up for all the songs on the New Moon Soundtrack.

You can listen to them here.

Source: His Golden Eyes

EW has a review of the New Moon Soundtrack. They give it an A.

Read the entire article here.

Here is an excerpt:

Moon (due in stores Oct. 20) yields several happy revelations from its lower-marquee names: Nordic songstress Lykke Li’s nearly a cappella ”Possibility” is a lovely little Swedish snowflake, and jokey rockers OK Go achieve an impressive sort of Flaming Lips-y quirk-gravitas on the sprawling, cinematic ”Shooting the Moon.” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s acoustic campfire lament ”Done All Wrong” segues seamlessly into the jaunty, Strokes-ian guitar fuzz of Hurricane Bells’ ”Monsters.” Think of New Moon as a sort of survey course in new-now-next rock: a mixtape with teeth. A

Vanity Fair has interviews with a number of artists from the New Moon Soundtrack.

Interviews include Alex Brown Church of Sea Wolf, Annie Clark, also known as St. Vincent and Tim Nordwind of OK Go.

Go to Vanity Fair to read all the interviews.

Here is an excerpt from the interview with Tim Nordwind of OK Go:

I think you already answered this, but would OK Go be vampires or werewolves? Are you more Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Vampires have better style—they’re a bit more formal, which I appreciate. Werewolves just bust out of whatever clothes they were wearing as humans. I think three-fourth’s of this band being vampires constitutes us as a vampire house band.

MTV.CO.UK sent us an email saying they are giving away ten copies of the New Moon Soundtrack!!

Head on over to MTV.CO.UK for for information.