is out next month.) But just as crucial to the moment was each film’s corresponding album. Soundtracks helped elevate movies from a two-hour escape into admission to specific music subcultures, and expanded the reach of each film in the process.helped bring trance and industrial even more into the mainstream andmaintained the movie’s carefree/party vibe with songs by Blink-182 and Third Eye Blind.
As the nineties turned into the 2000s, the way we consumed music changed. And while soundtracks continued to exist, they lacked the magic of the preceding decade, where they acted as an extension of a specific world.Today’s abundance of nineties nostalgia and cinematic retrospectives implies a real thirst for the feelings we had 20-plus years ago – which means that it’s now the perfect time to reintroduce the movie soundtrack as a concept, not just an accessory. Hollywood seems to be cluing in.