The soundtrack consists of instrumental parts by Gustavo Santaolalla and songs that were played in the movie. The songs were actually not needed here, the instrumental pieces are spectacular. The music is a mix between ambient, latin folk, electronics and post-rock. It is a depressive mix influenced by Astor Piazzolla’s early tango soundtracks, by modern depressive bands like Bohren And The Club Of Gore and ambient bands like Elivium. Most of the atmosphere is varying from grief to depression and it is fueled by folk instruments that are played in non traditional way, post-folk maybe. The best one is Can Dry Leaves Help Us, when a sample from the movie is played in the end of the song it just shakes your heart.

Music itself mixes ambient with unusual beats and remixed vocal samples. The first untitled track of the album is a king of into to first hit Archangel that will give a first impression about this spectacular album. So if the sound of this track is not your type you can press stop and throw away the CD. If you will decide to move on, you will drown in the ocean of samples ranging from Christina Aguilera to Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid games, not forgetting Beyonce and Aaliyah. Small interludes like In McDonalds are also there.

Actually Burial is good music for work and for relaxation, for early mornings and late evenings, for grey depression and huge love. It’s just genius.

Lots of strings and a piano build the carcass of this album. Professionally arranged and very dramatic, it is like Clint Mancell meeting School of Emotional Engineering with a twist of Danny Elfmans vision. The sound is very cinematic and even if you have no imagination the music is building for you great pictures. The whole mood is a dystopian noir movie street with some big steampunk machinery seen between the grey rooftops.

Each song is like a part of this movie. A chase, a mystery, a murder… the sound is a reflection of a lonely soul caught in blank mechanic society. Very similar to a recent noir movie La Antena. The track For Auschwitz is I think the best part of the album. Still the whole work is a very touching piece of music especially in modern music that has mostly lost its soul somewhere between labels and contracts.

He is awesome at creating amazing soundscapes but this work is like watching a small slow-motion movie. The music is very gentle with mostly a piano leading the melody, sometimes supported by violin guitar, bass and drums. But mostly it is melted with Frost’s trade mark gentle electronic ambient. Two songs have vocal lines but as for me it was not necessary.

In one of the interviews Frost said that the instrumental part was recorded in few days but he spent a year with his notebook deepening the sound and giving this plate more feeling.

Well the only thing that I can say, this year was worth it!

The Fountain is a great movie. I can compare it to like the grads of the intellectual cinema. But for me this movie will always be the music.

The author of the soundtrack is Clint Mansell this is the guy who wrote the famous Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, everyone who hears it gets like really shocked. In this movie Clint again collaborated with Kronos Quartet and for the first time with Scottish post-rock band Mogwai.

The soundtrack is a combination of mimalistic neo-classical themes, ambient stuff and bit of a post-rock. Really it is very hard to describe this. It gives you all the thoughts presented in the movie but also brings its own ideas and atmosphere.

This is the soundtrack of sad and calm nights or maybe of cold rainy days, or sometimes you can even see the music falling like snow. In one word – spectacular.