The lineup for the soundtrack to the latest monster entertainment cause celebre has been announced. The “New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” swings its net and captures all the most prized indie darlings and underwrites its own hip credibility factor by sucking the blood from their aorta.

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With fire in her belly, Lykke Li toured the bulk of her album with refined delivery and interpretation. Gone were the reverb-sauced vocals, and her backing trio of cute indie rock boys, tighter now than newly minted Velcro, provided choir-like vocals and an onslaught of pulsating, dance-insistent beats with minimal electronic manipulation.

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Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward

1. Be Your Own Pet – Becky
2. Cara Beth Satalino – Bizzaro
3. Destroyer – Blue flower, Blue Flame
4. Teitur – Catherine the Waitress
5. The Long Blondes – Century
6. Electric Six – Feed My Fucking Habit
7. m83 – Kim & Jessie – Album: Youth=Saturdays
8. Frightened Rabbit – Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms – Album: Midnight Organ Fight
9. Titus Andronicus – No Future Part II: The Day After No Future
10. Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance

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