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Album Review: Various - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Original Soundtrack

Contemporaries such as Coldplay, Sia, The National and Santigold deliver pedestrian tracks that’ll undoubtedly sound at home in the film, but here, are a little uninteresting overall.



Like most soundtracks of this ilk, this one takes a bunch of currently scorching hot names and takes what often feels like a leftover B-side from one of their recent sessions. In this case, to tie into The Hunger Games, everything is over-dramatised in just the right doses. Gal-of-the-moment Lorde has the perfect inclusion, the keystone and creepy cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World. Elsewhere contemporaries such as Coldplay, Sia, The National and Santigold deliver pedestrian tracks that'll undoubtedly sound at home in the film, but here, are a little uninteresting overall.