The film stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine- while I'm a huge fan of Ruffalo, I am usually not that thrilled with Keira Knightley and I remember myself wondering since when Adam Levine was in the acting business, but I digress. When there's a film out that in some way revolves around music, I'm pretty much inclined to be interested in it and probably end up liking it, so I thought I'd give Begin Again a chance.
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After I finished watching the movie, I pretty much immediately started listening to the soundtrack again and again- and even though I previously wasn't too keen on either Knightley or Levine, I must admit they both did a marvellous job with the songs.
The featured single "Lost Stars" comes in a number of different arrangements, and I have to say- I like all of them. I like Adam Levine's version which sounds very mainstream and radio-friendly, I like Keira Knightley's more acoustic, ballady version of the song, and I even like the remix of it that they put into the soundtrack for good measure as it seems.
Keira Knightley's voice actually really suits the whole singer-songwriter thing, it sounds very sweet which fits all the songs that are being recorded for the album in the movie pretty perfectly. To me, these songs ("Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home", "Like A Fool", "Coming Up Roses") are very relaxing to listen to and feel very harmonious.
Apart from that, there's some CeeLo Green (who also makes an appearance in the movie as a popular rap musician) songs mixed in between- and even though his music is nothing I would normally listen to because it's just not my cup of tea, they're actually really catchy and fit perfectly into the soundtrack.
Lastly, it has to be mentioned that pretty much all of the songs (except for "Coming Up Roses") were co-penned by Gregg Alexander, who also performed a songs on the soundtrack under the name of Cessyl Orchestra ("Into The Trance", "The Roof Is Broke", "Intimidated By You"). I feel like I should look up some of his other music, because I really like the atmospheric sound of these songs...
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