This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Blur fans, consider yourself warned: Despite the presence of main man Damon Albarn, this cannibal flick soundtrack hasn’t got one second of slick, wry Britpop.
What it has instead: 22 tracks and 74 minutes of mutant Appalachian squonk-folk, clank-and-thump percussion pieces and suitably nasty orchestral bits. This is what Deliverance’s score would have sounded like if Tom Waits and Bernard Herrmann teamed up to record it with a drugged-up symphony and a drunken Salvation Army Band. If that isn’t something worth sinking your teeth into, I don’t know what would be.
