Various Artists - Inherent Vice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)

P.T. Anderson's film adaptation of Inherent Vice captures author Thomas Pynchon's dizzying vision of '70s Los Angeles, and this soundtrack is a blissfully disorienting complement. In contrast to his scores for the Anderson films There Will Be Blood and The Master, Jonny Greenwood's instrumental pieces take cues from Hollywood noir and are full of sweeping string crescendos ("Shasta") and moments of suspense ("Adrian Prussia"). They're juxtaposed against the spastic avant-rock of Can's "Vitamin C" and Neil Young's hayseed roller "Journey Through the Past." Sequenced out of order, the soundtrack is as wily and frenetic as its film counterpart.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Jonny Greenwood - Shasta (2:40)
1.02 - Can - Vitamin C (3:32)
1.03 - Jonny Greenwood - Meeting Crocker Fenway (1:26)
1.04 - The Marketts - Here Comes the Ho-Dads (2:16)
1.05 - Jonny Greenwood - Spooks (2:35)
1.06 - Jonny Greenwood - Shasta Fay (7:02)
1.07 - Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs (3:17)
1.08 - Jonny Greenwood - The Chryskylodon Institute (3:05)
1.09 - Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki (3:10)
1.10 - Jonny Greenwood - Adrian Prussia (2:51)
1.11 - Neil Young - Journey Through the Past (2:22)
1.12 - Les Baxter - Simba (2:43)
1.13 - Jonny Greenwood - Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! (1:56)
1.14 - Jonny Greenwood - The Golden Fang (4:51)
1.15 - Jonny Greenwood - Amethyst (2:04)
1.16 - Jonny Greenwood - Shasta Fay Hepworth (5:45)
1.17 - Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (3:28)