Hanna: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

Given the previous success in the soundtrack sphere of fellow old skool dance music heavyweights Daft Punk, Orbital and David Holmes, it was perhaps inevitable that the Chemical Brothers would one day follow in their footsteps. That it would be for a film like Hanna - a slightly odd thriller about a teenage girl raised to be a cold blooded killer in Scandinavian wilderness - is perhaps more surprising. Musically, Hanna is certainly one of the most interesting things Tom and Ed have done. While many of their familiar themes are present - the spiralling psychedelics, dark atmospherics and bludgeoning beats - they share equal space with off-kilter ambience, music box melodies, yearning vocal freestyling and creepy special effects.

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