"The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack" should successfully pique the interest of young moviegoers with alt-rock tracks from top shelf hipsters.

The soundtrack offers a brooding panoply of songs, matching the sense of danger that is the sinew of the modern-day vampire tale. Forlorn, foreboding and minor-chord infused rock rules the day here.

The album starts out strong with Death Cab For Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox," which includes the appropriately dreary line "Your last breath is moving through you, as everything ends."

Band of Skulls provides a jangle of pleasant buzzing guitars on "Friends." Hurricane Bells does them one better on "Monsters" by distorting the guitar, the bass and the lead vocals and making the whole collection sound as though it was funneled through a banged up megaphone.

All this aural audacity is perfectly positioned with the youthful target audience who have thus far consumed all things "Twilight" related. Pasty vampires with great hair on the big screen now have a killer soundtrack to accompany their every bite.

CHECK THIS TRACK OUT: Anya Marina's "Satellite Heart" is the standout track of the bunch. Her raspy love-song vocals lay perfectly atop the minimalist guitar work, and serve as the musical muse to Twilighter Bella's boy quandary. Edward or Jacob?



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RON HARRIS,Associated Press Writer

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