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Producers: Brian Beattie, Wally Gagell, Tim O'Heir.
Compilation producer: Randall Poster.
Director: Larry Clark .
Editor: Christopher Tellefsen.
Photographer: Larry Clark .
There's a sense of poetic justice that Lou Barlow is the dominant mind behind the KIDS soundtrack. His neurotic, self-effacing, obnoxious glances into adolescence have long had no equal in the post-punk world. Now as troop-leader for the artists making up this compilation, Barlow's unique glimpses into youth culture can be seen on a larger scale.
Barlow contributes to all but four of the soundtrack's songs, and you can tell that it was a mood, not just a sound, that he was looking for. Only once does he appear in the guise of Sebadoh, mostly sticking to the Folk Implosion monicker, or its Deluxx model. Songs like "Daddy Never Understood" and "Nothing Gonna Stop" take from Barlow's fertile songwriting influences, from the hardcore strains of his Dinosaur Jr. days to the organic hip-hop of the '90s. In either of the disparate styles, his ability to conjure longing, insecurity and other stabs of youthful trauma are almost unparalleled.
The KIDS soundtrack also allows the disturbing contradictions of the film to come through. There's the youthful side of Daniel Johnston's "Casper," but that giddiness soon gives way to the mind-blowing confusion of Slint's "Good Morning Captain." There's a delirious sense of discovery in the Folk Implosion's "Wet Stuff," but pent-up menace in Lo-Down's urban nightmare, "Mad Fright Night." Like the movie it supports, the KIDS soundtrack is a show-and-tell session for the '90s.
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