Детали релиза : Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet - Requiem for a Dream / Реквием по мечте (2000) [FLAC (tracks + .cue)]

It roughly goes: if you like the film, you'll love the soundtrack. Many soundtracks sound great when mixed with the film but feel emotionally empty when simply played on a CD. Other soundtracks, great soundtracks, are able to stand alone from the film and help you to remember those moments from said flick that grabbed you. Listening to Clint Mansell's score for Darren Aronofsky's drug-addled nightmare "Requiem For A Dream", I still get shivers in my remembering the tragic events of the film via Mansell and the Kronos Quartet's wonderful work.

Like the film, soundtrack is divided into three parts: Summer, Fall and Winter. Summer contains 15 songs, none of them over three minutes long (Track 10, "High On Life", lasts a full eleven seconds) and all of them bearing ominous warnings for what's to come, key standouts being the tentative "Ghosts Of Things To Come" and the forboding "Hope Overture", the latter being a mixture of strings and beats that wouldn't sound out of place on Bjork's "Homogenic" album. Fall has 9 songs, and it is here where Mansell lays heavier programming onto the Quartet's stuff, as heard on the first track "Cleaning Apartment", and hints at the film's near-insanity at this point with the menacing mounting of "Arnold" and, particularly, "Sara Goldfarb Has Left The Building" (advice: listen to the latter extremely loudly). The Winter section starts with a jolt with the 19 seconds of "Winter Overture", and never lets up. Amongst the insane screams of "The Beginning Of The End" and "Meltdown" (subtle titles if I do say so myself), however, some slower, sadder stuff seeps through, particularly on "Ghosts Of A Future Lost", a theme built throughout the three sections that ends here on an emotional high, and "Lux Aeterna".

Mansell and the Quartet are content with using many musical themes throughout the soundtrack, as the distinct string arrangements that begin as early as "Summer Overture" continually reappear throughout the CD. This is also rather more obviously identified in the repetition in titles, examples being "Dreams", "Ghosts" and "Tense". But each track is given a tweak via Mansell's subtle mixing that contrasts with what is essentially the same song that has gone before. As for the congas: well, unless you've seen the film, you won't appreciate them as much as you would by simply listening to them cold (they sound like something Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer would do!) Fan of the film: buy the soundtrack. Fan of diverse new composers: buy the soundtrack.