Various
Garden State OST
(Sony)
North America’s new boyfriend Zach Braff has created a lovely mix tape to go along with the film he wrote, directed and stars in, making his list of hyphenates grow to almost pretentious proportions. Featuring songs by Coldplay (“Don’t Panic,” also used to similar hopeful effect in Igby Goes Down), Zero 7, The Shins and Men at Work’s Colin Hay (!) plus an acoustic cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” by Iron and Wine, the soundtrack has the same lilting, dreamy, smile-inducing effect of the film.
—Tara Thorne
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.