Album Review: Various - T2 Trainspotting Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Having single-handedly given the humble movie soundtrack compilation a shot in the arm with the original Trainspotting in 1996, director Danny Boyle's curation of the sequel's music is marvellously deft and meticulous.

The old schools (Blondie, Queen, Frankie Goes To Hollywood) and the new (High Contrast, Young Fathers, Wolf Alice) are comfortable bed(sit)fellows. The Prodigy remix Iggy Pop's Lust For Life, tweaking the swagger and hardly improving the original, but context is everything and, come the film's release, it should all make perfect sense. Underworld's Eventually But (Spud's Letter To Gail) is a heartbreaking spoiler (best avoided prior to seeing the film, though).