Trance: UK Edition / Various

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Rick Smith, member of Underworld band, has reunited with Danny Boyle, the stunning London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, to score his Olympics' evil cousin, mindbending heist thriller Trance. Those expecting the pop jukebox of Trainspotting or banging 4/4 dance of Underworld will be surprised. 'Bullet Cut' swoops and swoons overhead, like a shining London cityscape. 'Santiago (101 Greatest Goals)' stalks around before pouncing on your sense of wellbeing with it's growling glitches. 'Solomon' starts simply enough, all soft strings and sensitivity. The non-Smith songs are a quirky bunch. Dark dance tracks from UNKLE and Moby are so well suited that they may as well have been written for the film. M People's 'Moving on Up' on the other hand jars here as much as in it's horrifying movie sequence. "It's a song I never had much of an urge to spin in the mid-'90s, and that feeling is probably doubled now." -said M People. Singer-songwriter Kirsty McGee's thematically-appropriate old-school, smoky jazz-hall 'Sandman' could have been recorded any time from 1920 to 2013, and sounds suitably timeless. It's minute-long reprise by the movie's star Rosario Dawson, which closes the soundtrack, brings back that delicious sense of unease. The cornerstone here is Smith's new collaboration with Emeli Sandé. 'Here it Comes' is probably Sandé's best song since 'Heaven'. a seven-and-a-half-minute epic that works to give her voice infinite-seeming space to leap and soar, it shows just why she's been absolutely everywhere for the last 18 months. Despite the funny quips about her ubiquity, on this sort of form she's absolutely earned it.