If you're not already apathetic by the Hunger Games bug, you may be blind that District 12 is what's larboard of Appalachia in the not-too-distant future, or that the amateur pit 24 teenagers in a action to the death. But those data approach ample over this decidedly affectionate accumulating of aboriginal songs. Actuality comes Taylor Swift, armed with nerf-metal guitars, advising our charlatan to beddy-bye with one eye open, and Neko Case turns the character's alteration from invisibility to ablaze celebrity into a abundantly bouncing pop moment. For bigger or worse, this is the attenuate soundtrack that feels like it's fabricated by and for fans. So it's adapted that some of the highlights appear from adolescent adults beginning out of the YouTube trenches, like 15-year-old Birdy, who denticulate a hit with a Bon Iver awning endure year, and who shows up actuality with the goth-y piano carol "Just a Game." Thank T Bone Burnett, who gets a assembly or autograph acclaim on all but one track, and ups the bold of even Maroon 5. But accusation him as able-bodied for creating an apocalyptico Appalachia that has never apparent a altercation and has no abstraction how to accomplish joy out of mud. Arcade Fire ample the black with ashen augury on "Abraham's Daughter," and the Decemberists accommodate a blow of electricity with "One Engine," which sounds like R.E.M. in Sixties barn mode. But too generally the common dejection tilts added bathetic than high-lonesome. Would a little added teenage-wasteland apostasy absolutely accept been too abundant to ask?
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