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The Acid House is based on three short stories from Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, who uses Edinburgh, Scotland's bleak working-class environment to sharply contrast the neurotic excitement that music and drugs bring to the otherwise dead landscape. Featuring a star-studded lineup (Chemical Brothers, Oasis, the Verve, Nick Cave), the soundtrack is one of the most ambitious in some time. Anyone taking the soundtrack's title literally, however, will surely be disappointed by the moody, clearly un-Acid House music represented within. Nick Cave and Barry Adamson provide the strongest cinematic flair with the lounge-orch
The Acid House is based on three short stories from Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, who uses Edinburgh, Scotland's bleak working-class environment to sharply contrast the neurotic excitement that music and drugs bring to the otherwise dead landscape. Featuring a star-studded lineup (Chemical Brothers, Oasis, the Verve, Nick Cave), the soundtrack is one of the most ambitious in some time. Anyone taking the soundtrack's title literally, however, will surely be disappointed by the moody, clearly un-Acid House music represented within. Nick Cave and Barry Adamson provide the strongest cinematic flair with the lounge-orchestrated "Sweetest Embrace," which evokes a velvet age. Beth Orton follows suit with the Sunday morning comedown of "Precious Maybe." The Chemical Brothers contribute two mixes of "Leave Home." The Soul Renegades with Texas find the R&B groove with "You'll Never Know." Scottish cult darlings Belle & Sebastian add "Slow Graffiti," which tosses a traditional country melody alongside their own shoe-gazer shuffle. Oasis contributes a new track, "Going Nowhere," which recalls the innocence of '70s AM radio without turning kitsch. Seems like the big party has an even bigger hangover to deal with. --Rob O'Connor
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Manufacturer: Capitol
Release date: 10 August 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724349820722 UPC: 724349820722
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