Album Review: Various - Inherent Vice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has reunited with director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) to compose the score for this newbie based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel.

It’s a stellar soundtrack of whimsical strings-driven moodiness peppered with songs from the likes of Can and Neil Young. Greenwood really shines on Radiohead-written Spooks, where he’s joined by Supergrass members and Joanna Newsom for a clever, intricately-worded piece of music. Greenwood has the innate ability to mirror the audience’s feelings in his scores, flipping from edge-of-seat tension to light-hearted musicality, and it’s a damn delight.