The soundtrack for the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis falls into a special sub-category of film soundtracks, the of the non-original soundtrack. The album produced by legendary producer T Bone Burnett as well as the Cohen brothers themselves is a beautiful mix of traditional and well known folk style songs re-arranged and newly recorded for the album by notable artists such as Bob Dylan, Justin Timberlake, Mumford and Sons and Carry Mulligan to name just a few.
The film narrates the week of a struggling folk singer in 1961 New York and the various trials and tribulations of his life. Soundtracks of rearranged existing music are not uncommon and can be done to create outstanding effect, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge is the prime example of how this can be done, whereas Quentin Tarantino is the premier example of using existing music in its original form to add a new dimension to his films.
While this soundtrack does not quite match these pinnacle examples, it is a beautifully recorded and produced album which is really effective as a film soundtrack. What is superb is the album presents the full recorded tracks which are often chopped up in the film, so stands alone as an album that you canjust sit and listen to. Any readers of my previous reviews will know that in my opinion an excellent soundtrack is one you can listen to outside of the film.
In summary a beautifully recorded, produced and presented soundtrack to this Cohen Brother’s film, and a must listen if you enjoy a bit of folk or folk rock.
4/5
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