Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross teamed up again (after the 2008 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts project) to create this moody, electro-industrial masterpiece as the companion music to the 2010 David Fincher film, The Social Network - a movie about how Facebook got started.
To my ears this is music more suited to a cult sci-fi, so I wondered why Reznor would lend his name to a movie about Facebook?
Well believe it or not, in the hands of director David Fincher (the guy who did Fight Club & Seven) it's not bad, and after flogging this album to death for the last few months, I finally succumbed and watched The Social Network last week. Although it's no Fight Club it was a decent flick, and the music added another dimension to it (at least I think it did - I may have been too preoccupied listening out for the music in the film). The simple piano motif that weaves its way through "Hand Covers Bruise" sets the stage nicely for over an hour of pulsing electronica, dark ambient movements, and even a dramatic cover of classical composer Edvard Grieg's "In The Hall Of The Mountain King". Sheer brilliance.
This soundtrack is everything a movie soundtrack should be: emotive, cohesive & well produced. It even gives the film a sinister vibe that I doubt would have been there to begin with without this music.
And for me, that sinister vibe makes all the difference.
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