Girls, Vol. 1: Music from the HBO Original Series

Overview

Girls, Vol. 1: Music from the HBO Original Series gathers musical highlights from the show's first season as well as songs to be featured in its second season. Girls won praise for its unflinching and often hilarious portrayal of four friends testing the waters of post-college life; while most of the soundtrack doesn't have quite this amount of depth, it's still a believable and very listenable backdrop to Hannah and her friends' (mis)adventures. Girls' music is a pretty even mix of hedonism and soul-searching: cheeky tracks like Icona Pop's "I Love It" and the Vaccines' "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)" capture living-in-the-moment thrills, while introspective songs such as the Echo-Friendly's "Same Mistakes," Fleet Foxes' "Montezuma," and Belle & Sebastian's "I Don't Love Anyone" (which had seen a few generations of twenty-somethings through their pre-life crises by the time it was included here) reflect the characters' dawning self-awareness. Like the show's characters, sometimes the song choices here tread dangerously close to cliche, but Robyn's "Dancing on My Own" expresses the push-pull of wanting to be in love while remaining independent that Girls' girls are experiencing, all within the confines of a brilliantly catchy pop song. Several exclusive songs also appear here, such as fun.'s "Sight of the Sun," Grouplove's rousing "Everyone's Gonna Get High," and Santigold's sassy "Girls," adding more dimension to the soundtrack's music. Even if Girls, Vol. 1: Music from the HBO Original Series falls just short of having enough personality to feel like a mixtape or playlist made by Hannah or one of her friends, there are enough quirky choices to prevent it from feeling like too blatant a piece of marketing. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date:	01/08/2013
Label:	Fueled By Ramen Records
UPC:	0075678732355
Rank:	132164

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Santigold   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Troggs   Primary Artist
Sleigh Bells   Primary Artist
Lia Ices   Primary Artist
Fleet Foxes   Primary Artist
Fun.   Primary Artist
Grouplove   Primary Artist
Oh Land   Primary Artist
White Sea   Primary Artist
Icona Pop   Primary Artist
The Vaccines   Primary Artist
Charli XCX   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
The Echo-Friendly   Primary Artist
Tegan and Sara   Primary Artist
Belle and Sebastian   Primary Artist
Robyn   Primary Artist
Michael Penn   Primary Artist
Harper Simon   Primary Artist
Generationals   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Morgan Kibby   Composer
Andrew Dost   Producer
Linus Ekloew   Composer
Katie Robinson   Marketing
Patrik Berger   Composer,Producer
Grant Widmer   Composer
Switch   Producer,Producer
Dave Taylor   Composer
Joshua Skubel   Package Production
Patrick Berger   Composer,Producer
Judd Apatow   Executive Producer
Robin Pecknold   Composer
Lia Ices   Composer,Producer
Robin Peeknold   Composer
Jake Rabinbach   Composer
Anthony Cruz   Recording
Kevin Weaver   Soundtrack Producer,A&R,Producer
Manish Raval   A&R,Producer,Soundtrack Producer
Fleet Foxes   Producer
Fun.   Composer
Ted Joyner   Composer
Ryan Rabin   Producer
Aryanna Platt   A&R
Grouplove   Composer
Freddie Cowan   Composer
White Sea   Producer
Nanna Oland Fabricius   Composer
Arni Arnason   Composer
Pete Robertson   Composer
Justin Young   Composer
Robin Carlsson   Composer
The Echo-Friendly   Producer
Jake Rabintach   Composer
Jeffrey Penalva   Composer
Jenni Konner   Executive Producer
Jon Leahy   Composer,Music Coordinator
Lena Dunham   Executive Producer
Nicolas Ventes   Producer
Joe Khoury   Soundtrack Coordination
Charlotte Aitchison   Composer
Shannon Esper   Composer
Thom Skarzynski   Marketing
Trooko   Producer
Viglio Tzaj   Design,Art Direction
Ben Okri   Composer
Belle and Sebastian   Composer
Style of Eye   Producer
Daniel Black   Producer
Robyn   Producer
Santi White   Composer
Phil Ek   Producer
Nicolas Vernhes   Producer
Michael Penn   Composer,Producer
Dan Grech-Marguerat   Producer
Tom Wolfe   A&R,Producer,Soundtrack Producer
Jack Antonoff   Producer
Harper Simon   Composer,Producer
Dave McCracken   Composer,Producer