The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part One Soundtrack

The full track list for 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1' soundtrack:

 * 1) » The Joy Formidable, "Endtapes"
 * 2) » Angus & Julia Stone, "Love Will Take You"
 * 3) » Bruno Mars, "It Will Rain"
 * 4) » Sleeping at Last, "Turning Page"
 * 5) » The Features, "From Now On"
 * 6) » Christina Perri, "A Thousand Years"
 * 7) » Theophilus London, "Neighbors"
 * 8) » The Belle Brigade, "I Didn't Mean It"
 * 9) » Noisettes, "Sister Rosetta (2011 Version)"
 * 10) » Cider Sky, "Northern Lights"
 * 11) » Iron & Wine, "Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)"
 * 12) » Imperial Mammoth, "Requiem on Water"
 * 13) » Aqualung & Lucy Schwartz, "Cold"
 * 14) » Mia Maestro, "Llovera"
 * 15) » Carter Burwell, "Love Death Rebirth"

Information about the Soundtrack
We already knew about Bruno Mars' involvement in the upcoming "Breaking Dawn" soundtrack. But now — officially — we know who will be joining him.

Theophilus London, the Joy Formidable, Iron & Wine, Christina Perri and the Noisettes are just some of the acts confirmed for the "Dawn" soundtrack, which hits stores on November 8 (10 days before "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" bows in theaters). The full track list was unveiled Monday (September 26) afternoon on the official "Twilight" Twitter account, confirming speculations that sprung up over the weekend, when a listing of artists and songs began making the rounds on various fansites.

Work by "Twilight"-series composer Carter Burwell and actress Mia Maestro (she plays Carmen of the Denali Cover in the "Breaking Dawn" films) also shows up on the soundtrack, as do songs by Angus and Julia Young, the Features, the Belle Brigade and Cider Sky. All in all, there are 15 tracks on the album, and all — aside from a "Wedding Version" of Iron & Wine's "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" (as any good Twilighter will tell you, the original version of the song appeared on the first "Twilight" soundtrack) and an updated take on Noisettes' "Sister Rosetta" — are new.

The "Breaking Dawn" soundtrack follows in the footsteps of the ultra-successful 2008 "Twilight" 'track (which featured new songs from Paramore and Perry Farrell), '09's "New Moon" (which boasted a new track by Death Cab for Cutie and contributions from Thom Yorke and Lykke Li) and last year's "Eclipse," which packed in tunes from Muse, Florence and the Machine, Beck and Vampire Weekend.

Reviews on the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part One Soundtrack
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Regardless of how awful you find the films and books, the Twilight series has at least done a solid job with its soundtracks. As the romantic drama surrounding a vapid girl picking between a glittery vampire and a shirtless werewolf prepares to come to a head on the big screen, the series' sonic accompaniment leans heavily on male/female harmonies for its latest effort.

This time around, the album infuses a bit of pop into the mix to change things up a from the last few albums' heavy indie rock slant. Soul crooner, Bruno Mars delivers a sweet, raspy melody over a smattering of bongo beats and strings on "It Will Rain", as he begs his girl not to leave him. Genre-bending Brooklyn rapper, Theophilus London's "Neighbors" features beat crackling with energy, but it ultimately feels like a more cluttered, less effective, "I Stand Alone". When the track stumbles into a strange bossa nova stomp, things dissolve into a clunky tropical storm.

Cider Sky's "Northern Lights" feels like a slightly more polished Owl City, with its xylophone and chimes twinkling through the electrified hum of bass behind the sweet male/female harmony. New pop princess, Christina Perri delivers the best of the attempts to rope in the pop crowd on "A Thousand Years". The piano and acoustic guitar drizzling through her sweet, sturdy proclamations of love are joined by the occasional male vocal popping in and out to lend harmony to the likeable love song.

The album mostly falls in line with the indie sensibilities of the previous soundtracks, with Welsh trio The Joy Formidable opening the set with a pounding beat and rumbling bass groove to accompany Ritzy Bryan's reverberating vocals on "Endtapes". The band saves the fuzzed out guitar eruption for the song's midpoint, leaving Bryan's hushed vocals moving along with a grumbling synth that does not quite prepare the uninitiated for the kind of towering rock assault found on their debut. The playful piano rock swagger and addictive hook of The Belle Brigade's sultry "I Didn't Mean It", the slithering blues kissed rock of Noisettes' "Sister Rosetta", and the bristling riffs and soulful, aching vocals of The Features' vibrant celebration of love on "From Now On" give you plenty of booty shaking rock to balance out the album's more restrained selections.

The plucky shuffling beat and finger picked guitar behind sweeping strings on Angus & Julia Stone's "Love Will Take You" serve as a more mellow, harmonized listen, as does the tender, orchestra-laced balladry of Sleeping At Last's "Turning Page". They are fine romantic listens, but pale in comparison to Iron & Wine's "Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)". The original version showed up on the first film's soundtrack, but the Sam Beam tune lives up to the promise of the 'wedding version' with a gorgeous string fuelled ballad that could easily become a new wedding favorite for the Twilight crowd.

The album would actually be better off if it ended here, rather than droning on with another four sleepy tracks. Carter Burwell's aimless instrumental "Love Death Birth" and the sleepy "Llovera" from Mia Maestro are bland listens that have the unfortunate job of following the methodically picked acoustic "Requiem On Water" from Imperial Mammoth, conceivably picked for the male/female aesthetic, and the wasted "Cold" from Aqualung & Lucy Schwartz. Despite the talent involved, the husky whisper of Aqualung and the tender tenor of Schwartz go together like oil and water, with the slowly plodding tune falling terribly flat.

Despite the limp conclusion, this serves as another worthwhile entry into the Twilight Saga's soundtrack series

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part One Trailer
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