Six Feet Under- Volume Two- Everything Ends - Music from the HBO Original Series

Product Description Second volume of music from the HBO series boasts a diverse and exciting selection of artists whose music has appeared in previous seasons of the show and in its promos. It also features exclusive tracks created just for the upcoming fifth and final season--from some of music's hottest acts, including Caesars, Arcade Fire and Interpol, as well as a new exclusive track from Jem. Elaborate special packaging. Astralwerks. 2005. Amazon.com It seems an easy task to put together a CD for a series about a funeral home...pick some songs about death and make people smirk on topic for a moment before they toss it into the soundtrack graveyard. But this is not a disc to be tossed away. Six Feet Under: Everything Ends is a collection of music that feels exactly like the series: a floaty-bordering-on-surreal batch of greatness. The disc starts off with an underrated track from , the sultry "Feeling Good." Fans of Coldplay and Radiohead will certainly be familiar with their previously-released tunes ("A Rush of Blood to the Head" and "Lucky" respectively) but the best element of this disc is that it gives lesser-known, musically-similar artists a push. After all, finding 's "Transatlanticism" and 's fragile "Breathe Me" on pop radio is, well...let's stick to the theme and use the "snowball's chance in hell" analogy. There are a host of great, previously unreleased and exclusive tracks on this CD: Jem's Dido-esque "Amazing Life," the Caesars' "Don't Fear The Reaper" cover, Interpol's discordant and dark "Direction" and 's wonderful "Cold Wind"--a whispered, frail, and beautiful soundscape, perfect to watch hearses off drive into sunsets by. --Denise Sheppard