Amazing Spiderman 2 - The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack - Music & Performance - CD

Columbia Records presents the release of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Original Soundtrack. The album includes the lead single, 'It's on Again' by Alicia Keys featuring Kendrick Lamar. The soundtrack also includes new music from Pharrell Williams, the Neighborhood, LIZ, and Alvin Risk. In addition, Phosphorescent's 'Song for Zula' is also featured on the soundtrack. The film's epic score was composed by Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Hans Zimmer and the Magnificent Six, which features Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Modest Mouse), Michael Einziger (Incubus), Junkie XL, Andrew Kawczynski, and Steve Mazzaro.

Credited to Hans Zimmer & the Magnificent Six, who replaced James Horner's largely orchestral score for the first film with a juiced-up, largely electronic one, the soundtrack for the Amazing Spider-Man 2 echoes the sequel's frenetic, slick, and streamlined action, offering up 14 instrumental pieces and six non-score-related songs that dutifully reflect the measured and meticulous, corporate tie-in sensibilities of the traditional summer blockbuster while still managing to march to the beat of their own very loud drum. Zimmer and his small army of hit makers, who include Johnny Marr (the Smiths), Junkie XL, Michael Einziger (Incubus), Andrew Kawczynski, Pharrell Williams, and Steve Mazzaro, infuse Andrew Garfield's second go-around as the web slinger with equal amounts of pomp and circumstance, introducing a new main theme that pairs a traditional, heroic, horn-driven melody with a serpentine (or spider-like) arpeggiated synth motif that goes a long way in marrying the faded glory of Spidey's comic book origins to the high-octane, over-stimulation of 21st century cinema. Upon first listen, the villain theme, introduced right off the bat with "I'm Electro," seems a little too on the nose, but the mesmerizing eight-minute "My Enemy" eradicates any off flavors by presenting a theme that matches the grace and muscular chrome sheen of Spider Man's cue, albeit via the bold strokes of dubstep. It shouldn't work, but Zimmer and co. have constructed a beast of a piece that frames a whispered laundry list of internal transgressions with an electro-rock center and a sneaky, Baroque-kissed whip of a base melody that spins the whole thing off in a kind of Marvel-approved re-imagining of Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise." The tacked-on songs, which include radio-ready offerings from Pharrell Williams, Phosphorescent, and Alicia Keys feat. Kendrick Lamar, are all well and good in that largely forgettable, ubiquitous movie-credits-sequence kind of way, but Zimmer and company's remarkably forward-thinking score makes this sequel to a film (which arrived a mere five years after the first franchise ended) a surprise gem. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

Performer	Amazing Spiderman 2
Music genre	Soundtracks
Music release type	Soundtrack
Media format	CD
Original release date	2014
Language	English
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	The Amazing Spider-Man
Track listing	I'm Electro, There He Is, I'm Spiderman, My Enemy, Ground Rules, Look at Me, You Need Me, So Much Anger, I Need to Know, Sum Total, I Chose You, We're Best Friends, Still Crazy, You're That Spider Guy, It's on Again - Alicia Keys W/ Kendrick Lemar, Song for Zula, That's My Man, Here, Honest, Electro Remix
Record label	Sony
Target audience	General/trade
Composer	Hans Zimmer
Character	Spider-Man
Track name	I'm Electro, There He Is, I'm Spiderman, My Enemy, Ground Rules, Look at Me, You Need Me, So Much Anger, I Need to Know, Sum Total, I Chose You, We're Best Friends, Still Crazy, You're That Spider Guy, It's on Again - Alicia Keys W/ Kendrick Lemar, Song for Zula, That's My Man, Here, Honest, Electro Remix Amazing Spiderman 2
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N