The Vampire Diaries: Original Television Soundtrack
Various
3-1/2 stars
You don't have to watch The Vampire Diaries to enjoy this compilation - but you'd probably enjoy it more if you fancy the odd walk on the dark side.
Most tracks evoke images of dark city streets with hidden dangers - not a million
miles away from the Twilight soundtracks - with a similar contingent of cool indie bands like Placebo, Gorillaz, Bat for Lashes and Silversun Pickups.
A couple of cover versions are the album's standouts: Placebo doing an emo-pained version of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill and Digital Daggers taking on Tears For Fears' Head Over Heels.
The Smashing Pumpkins' electronicky new track The Fellowship sounds like it belongs on the band's much-maligned 1998 album Adore, but fits nicely here among similar songs.
Overall, worth getting your teeth into.
