Vinyl, volume 1 : music from the HBO original series

" As a whole, the Vinyl soundtrack is handsome, smart, and completely on point, which is also its handicap: instead of delivering the thrill of rock & roll, it suggests this history was all preordained".

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"And yet, the first of two full-length soundtracks planned from season one strays 40 years into the future, putting new songs by country singer Sturgill Simpson, Icelandic rockers Kaleo and Rock Star: INXS contestant/Vintage Trouble frontman Ty Taylor alongside period jams by the Dolls (re-recorded by singer David Johansen), Otis Redding, Foghat, the Edgar Winter Group and the Meters, among others. The juxtaposition is sometimes jarring, not because the new songs don't stand on their own merits, but because they haven't had time yet to seep into our subconscious minds the way that music from that era has. Instead of evoking a period, or a place, the new songs are still blank slates, waiting for the associations that only come with time and becoming part of a shared experience.

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"Til sommer står [Sturgill Simpson] på Roskilde Festivals program ... [Hans] nummer [her], "Sugar Daddy", er bluespræget og med en omgang guitarlir, der får en til at tænke på The Black Keys. Sangens indre styrke er Sturgill Simpsons sangforedrag, der på overraskende vis huserer i det nabolag, hvor Led Zeppelins sanger, Robert Plant, befinder sig. Der er potens i andre sange - rock, funk og soul - på et soundtrack, der blander nyt med gammelt, på en måde som gør god reklame for [tv-serien]".

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