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Track Listings

1	Jack's Dream
2	Waking Up
3	Tech 49
4	Starwaves
5	Odyssey Rescue
6	Earth 2077
7	Losing Control
8	Canyon Battle
9	Radiation Zone
10	You Can't Save Her
11	Raven Rock
12	I'm Sending You Away
13	Ashes of Our Fathers
14	Temples of Our Gods
15	Fearful Odds
16	Undimmed By Time, Unbound By Death
17	Oblivion

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The OBLIVION Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new music by Anthony Gonzalez of M83 and Joseph Trapanese. The score features a hybrid of the traditional M83 electronic sound combined with sweeping orchestral elements. The soundtrack has sixteen score cues along with a brand new song "Oblivion" by M83 featuring Norwegian singer songwriter Susanne Sundfor, which is the end title for the film.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.03 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Backlot Music
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2013
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2013
Label ‏ : ‎ Backlot Music
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BPA6XUK
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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JMM

Oblivion

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2013

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Oblivion is director Joseph Kosinski's second feature film. His first film was Tron Legacy. Between the two films, it seems that Kosinski is not only talented when it comes to visual style, but he also seems to make unique and inspired choices when it comes to film scoring. Fans of film music will no doubt recall Daft Punk's excellent score for Tron Legacy - easily one of the more memorable aspects of that film.

For Oblivion, Kosinski has called upon the French electronic band M83 to provide the score. I'll admit that I had never heard of M83 prior to hearing the news that they'd be working Oblivion, but a quick sampling of their previous albums shows that they are very talented and I can now call myself a fan of their work.

The Oblivion score is wonderful, by far the best score I have heard this year. The classical film score style mixed with electronic sounds yields amazing results. The music is a large part of what makes the movie a really fun experience - it's most effective when the music swells as Tom Cruise pilots his bubble ship through the clouds or rides his bike across the vast landscapes. I've singled out a few of my favorite tracks below, although this is one soundtrack where I would highly suggest you purchase the entire album. The whole thing is fantastic from start to finish.

If there's a flaw here, it would be that at certain points I feel there is a lack of originality - one track sounds very similar to a cue from Tron Legacy, and several tracks are also reminiscent of work by Hans Zimmer. But this is disappointing only to the mind, not the ears - after all, is sounding like Zimmer the worst thing in the world?

The final track, an original song featuring Susanne Sundfør, is a pleasant way to end the album. It can be heard in the end credits of the movie.

FAVORITE TRACKS:
[3] Tech 49
[4] Starwaves
[11] Raven Rock

Note: Both the CD and the MP3 version found on Amazon has 17 tracks totaling over an hour of music. If you want a more complete experience, the iTunes "Deluxe Edition" of the album has 30 tracks.

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JMM

Oblivion

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2013

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Oblivion is director Joseph Kosinski's second feature film. His first film was Tron Legacy. Between the two films, it seems that Kosinski is not only talented when it comes to visual style, but he also seems to make unique and inspired choices when it comes to film scoring. Fans of film music will no doubt recall Daft Punk's excellent score for Tron Legacy - easily one of the more memorable aspects of that film.

For Oblivion, Kosinski has called upon the French electronic band M83 to provide the score. I'll admit that I had never heard of M83 prior to hearing the news that they'd be working Oblivion, but a quick sampling of their previous albums shows that they are very talented and I can now call myself a fan of their work.

The Oblivion score is wonderful, by far the best score I have heard this year. The classical film score style mixed with electronic sounds yields amazing results. The music is a large part of what makes the movie a really fun experience - it's most effective when the music swells as Tom Cruise pilots his bubble ship through the clouds or rides his bike across the vast landscapes. I've singled out a few of my favorite tracks below, although this is one soundtrack where I would highly suggest you purchase the entire album. The whole thing is fantastic from start to finish.

If there's a flaw here, it would be that at certain points I feel there is a lack of originality - one track sounds very similar to a cue from Tron Legacy, and several tracks are also reminiscent of work by Hans Zimmer. But this is disappointing only to the mind, not the ears - after all, is sounding like Zimmer the worst thing in the world?

The final track, an original song featuring Susanne Sundfør, is a pleasant way to end the album. It can be heard in the end credits of the movie.

FAVORITE TRACKS:
[3] Tech 49
[4] Starwaves
[11] Raven Rock

Note: Both the CD and the MP3 version found on Amazon has 17 tracks totaling over an hour of music. If you want a more complete experience, the iTunes "Deluxe Edition" of the album has 30 tracks.

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Lancelot

Remarkable movie...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2014

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I have not been a big fan of Tom Cruise. But, this movie has helped to change my opinion of him.

I would describe "Oblivion" as "spare," in the sense that it seemed very tightly scripted and filmed. Largely shot in Iceland, to give a fresh look to a post-apocolyptic earth, this movie gives a much cleaner...even beautiful...look at a destroyed world. No endless night, no eternal storms. Instead, there is blue sky and sunshine, with just a shattered moon above to remind of the battle that the humans lost.

The technology is also cleanly designed. Smooth, modern and pleasing to look at. Even the deadly drones have a cruel efficiency to them.

The dialogue is wonderfully brief. Every line carries weight and meaning. Instead of prattling on, the characters say what needs to be said...and no more. This is especially true of Morgan Freeman's lines, which are delivered slowly and deliberately with a remarkable resonance that I can't recall having heard in his voice before.

Likewise, the pacing is also good. There is no lingering in a scene for longer than necessary. Each scene makes its point, then moves on to the next.

I loved the soundtrack. I never buy soundtrack albums. But, I did for "Oblivion." The music is soaring, uplifting.

I watched the movie over and over again, before I even started asking questions about some of the plot points. One glaring one was why the "Tet" was not able to maintain communications with the Sky Tower after it went below the horizon. Humans were able to have almost instantaneous global communications, even before satellites (transAtlantic cables). So, why in the face of "Bubbleships" and drones and Sky Towers, can the Tet not maintain instantaneous global communication?

But, overall, this movie is too satisfying for me to dwell much on a few inconsistencies...

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A.Sturgess

A truly remarkable composition that is complete and coherent within itself.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 22, 2014

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From my point of view there are three main categories for official soundtracks:

1) Music which brings back into your mind either the whole of a favourite film of key scenes from it. For some people, such OST's could be the music for 'Les Miserables', 'Mary Poppins', 'My fair lady', one or more of the 'Harry Potter' series, 'Shakespeare in love' etc. etc according to your own tastes.

2) Collections or selections of music which constitute compilations of music which individuals enjoy. Such selections might encompass lots of different styles or artists, or be drawn from the work of just one group or person. Examples might be the music used in 'Phenomenon', 'Mama Mia', 'Forest Gump' etc. etc.

3) Music which can be listened to pretty well for just the music. Maybe you saw the film, maybe not, that becomes less and less important. What does become important is the cohesion and completeness of the music itself. Maybe music from 'The rock' or one of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks or the 'Pirates of the Carribean' fall into that group for you. For me, I'd place the OST from 'Oblivion right at the head of what I think of as this third category.

M83's sountrack is, for me, effectively a fully-formed techno symphony. It flows smoothly from one track to another with themes recurring and evolving as the music evolves. Tracks can almost be thought of as 'movements' in the symphonic sense. The OST begins quietly and moodily but quickly develops a strong rhythmic and dramatc quality which leads you forwards into a series of peaks and troughs, crescendos and moments of calm which become compelling and almost hypnotic - but without the constant repetitiveness which can make some techno music become more akin to spaced-out dance music or pulse-infused trance. The whole OST is a coherent and cohesive piece of music in its own right.

And that brings me to two features which really surprised me:

First - the song which ends the film and, therefore, the soundtrack, isn't just something that has been tacked on to span the time as end credits roll across the screen. It genuinely fits and completes the whole composition and provides just enough of a difference and a climax to bring the 'symphony' to a satisfying end.

Second (and this REALLY surprised me) - it was only when I sat down to listen to the soundtrack on my earphones (as opposed to listening to it on speakers as I pottered around doing other things) that I actually went through the CD insert and realised that although M83's music is definitely techno in style, it is NOT driven or saturated with synths, sequencers nor rhythm machines. In fact, virtually the whole composition is recorded using a massive orchestra and choir with just one reference to an ANALOG synth tucked away in the small print. Despite sounding as good (or better) than the best of techno or Tangerine Dream in terms of sound, rhythm and depth - the only thing that is synthesised is the overall feel of the techno style and what might be thought of as the 'typical' techno sound. There is a battery of violins, violas, celli and double basses plus French horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba, percussion, timpani, Rhodes piano, electric bass and normal guitars, drums and .... a touch of analog synth programming. There are also sopranos, altos, tenors and bass singers a-plenty. Yet, despite all those elements of traditional orchestral composition, what you hear is as modern a symphony as you can get within the overall arena of techno.

Truly remarkable and totally successful.

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Kevin Berne

6 stars for this masterpiece!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 30, 2013

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It has been quite some time since I have had the pleasure to see such a fantastic Sci Fi - Thriller. The story is smart and engaging, the film is incredibly detailed and stylistically mindblowing. It has been incredibly photographed and superbly edited. The actors are great as well. The soundtrack is pulse-pounding and atmospheric. So, I guess most of the professional reviewers who give this movie bad grades obviously have quite strange ideas what makes a film great and what doesn't, as far as I'm concerned I couldn't be happier with how Oblivion turned out. Great imagery is not contrary to good storytelling, in fact good movies tell aspects of the story through their visuals as is the case with Oblivion. I believe Joseph Kosinski is definitely the most interesting and talented director starting his career in the last few years for sure. I give this film my highest recommendation, and I am really diappointed that even a piece of work and art such as this mostly gets bashed by people who would probably never come up with anything like it themselves...

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Amazon Customer

Stunning music

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 20, 2018

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For me this cd is worth getting for one track alone “Waking Up” - the way it builds to the first crescendo is amazing. I would love to see that track performed by a live orchestra with all the cellos playing en masse.

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Alan I Tomkins

Great CD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 25, 2019

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As this was coming from Germany, it arrived faster than I expected, the condition was excellent, as is the music. Just as well I can read German, as the cover is in German, but don't let that put you off buying it.

Groo

It's not Tron Legacy, but warm up your valve amp and enjoy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 13, 2013

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Very enjoyable soundtrack, with some sparkling dramatic moments. I love the title track and Fearful Odds, but it's all nicely crafted and unhurried. A good blend of orchestra and electronica sounds. The sleeve notes don't say much, but feature some good thumbnail pictures from the film.

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