Music From the Film "Levity"

What a slippery character this M.O. Everett is. Halfway through its running time, I was getting ready to dismiss this album as a moody piece that, if it works with its movie (it is a soundtrack), should have stayed in the theater (as if not releasing such tie-ins were plausible in this day). Then suddenly, the music became very compelling. I don't know if there's a corresponding turning point in the film, but damn, the second half of this album is good mood music, not just background.

1. Hazy drone
2. Scratchy-throated ballad
3. Little violin and piano sadness
4. Reverby but quiet guitar
5. Slow, quiet piano
6. Soft tension
7. Male and female quiet vocals
8. Chimes and low buzzy drone
9. More slow, quiet piano tinklings
10. Short guitar interlude
11. Heavenly vibrato electric piano chords and a distant cello
12. Little, strummy guitar solo with humming
13. A more robust guitar-chord-and-humming song which turns into a couple of gentle swarm-like crescendos; the best mood-setter here
14. Anticlimactic but pretty acoustic guitar