Requiem for a Dream

1	Summer: Summer Overture / Kronos Quartet 2:35
2	Summer: Party / Kronos Quartet 0:28
3	Summer: Coney Island Dreaming / Kronos Quartet 1:04
4	Summer: Party / Kronos Quartet 0:36
5	Summer: Chocolate Charms / Kronos Quartet 0:25
6	Summer: Ghosts of Things to Come / Kronos Quartet 1:33
7	Summer: Dreams / Kronos Quartet 0:44
8	Summer: Tense / Kronos Quartet 0:37
9	Summer: Dr. Pill / Kronos Quartet 0:42
10	Summer: High on Life / Kronos Quartet 0:11
11	Summer: Ghosts / Kronos Quartet 1:23
12	Summer: Crimin' and Dealin' / Kronos Quartet 1:44
13	Summer: Hope Overture / Kronos Quartet 2:32
14	Summer: Tense / Kronos Quartet 0:28
15	Summer: Bialy and Lox Conga / Moonrats 0:45
16	Fall: Cleaning Apartment / Kronos Quartet 1:28
17	Fall: Ghosts-Falling / Kronos Quartet 1:11
18	Fall: Dreams / Kronos Quartet 1:02
19	Fall: Arnold / Kronos Quartet 2:35
20	Fall: Marion Barfs / Kronos Quartet 2:22
21	Fall: Supermarket Sweep / Kronos Quartet 2:14
22	Fall: Dreams / Kronos Quartet 0:32
23	Fall: Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building / Kronos Quartet 1:17
24	Fall: Bugs Got a Devilish Grin Conga / Kronos Quartet 0:57
25	Winter: Winter Overture / Kronos Quartet 0:19
26	Winter: Southern Hospitality / Kronos Quartet 1:23
27	Winter: Fear / Kronos Quartet 2:26
28	Winter: Full Tense / Kronos Quartet 1:04
29	Winter: The Beginning of the End / Kronos Quartet 4:28
30	Winter: Ghosts of a Future Lost / Kronos Quartet 1:51
31	Winter: Meltdown / Kronos Quartet 3:56
32	Winter: Lux Aeterna / Kronos Quartet 3:54
33	Winter: Coney Island Low / Kronos Quartet 2:13

Barnes & Noble

Requiem for a Dream, the second film from indie director Darren Aronofsky, is the rather bleak story of a heroin addict and his depressed mother, a woman obsessed with television and diet pills. British composer/musician Clint Mansell (formerly of Pop Will Eat Itself) provides a dark, stirring, mostly-electronic score, which underscores the emotional ups and downs of the film's characters. The album's 33 tracks -- played by the ever-innovative Kronos Quartet -- are ambient, brooding pieces, some throbbing and insistent ("High on Life" and "Supermarket Sweep"), some terse (the 19-second "Winter Overture"), some amusing ("Bialy & Lox Conga," a nod to the film's Coney Island setting), and some simply lovely ("Summer Overture" and "Hope Overture"). While certain song titles and themes ("Dreams," "Party," "Ghosts") are repeated, the score's overall tone is at once mysterious, beautiful, moody, sinister -- an engrossing musical companion to an unsettling film. Ayelet Prizant

All Music Guide

Darren Aronofsky's second film Requiem for a Dream features a score from his Pi collaborator, former Pop Will Eat Itself vocalist/guitarist Clint Mansell. This time, Mansell blends his usual electronic/industrial leanings with brooding, evocative performances from the Kronos Quartet. As with Pi, Mansell's compositions play a large part in Requiem for a Dream, which is an adaptation of Hubert Selby's 1978 novel about the harrowing lives of four drug addicts. Impressively, Mansell's score manages to be appropriately dark and disturbing, as well as compulsively listenable. Heather Phares