Various Artists - The Great Gatsby (Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film) [Deluxe Edition] [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: May 03, 2013

Brian Tyler - Iron Man 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Country, Honky Tonk, Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock, Soundtrack
Released: 22 April 2013

Various Artists - Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: Apr 30, 2013

Henry Jackman - G.I. Joe Retaliation (Music from the Motion Picture) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack, Original Score
Released: Apr 02, 2013

Various Artists - The Host: Choose to Listen (Music Inspired By the Film) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: Mar 26, 2013

Various Artists - Lovestruck: The Musical (Music from the Original Television Movie) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack, Pop
Released: Mar 18, 2013

M83 - Oblivion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition] [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack
Released: Apr 09, 2013

Various Artists - Tarzan (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: 1999

Taylor Davis - Game of Thrones Theme - Single [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Instrumental
Released: Mar 26, 2013

Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Classical, World, Original Score
Released: 18 May 2007

Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: 10 July 2006

Given its theme-park origins and tongue-in-cheek swashbuckling, the first Pirates film was graced with an unusually dark and ominous score by Hans Badelt, one slyly credited as "overproduced by Hans 'Long John' Zimmer." Here, Hans takes the musical reigns from his colleague/protege and turns in something of a paradox. While the franchise's second chapter is visually and dramatically darker, Zimmer's musical approach is more varied and subtly playful than Badelt's, from the loping "Jack Sparrow" theme for low strings and the brooding rhythms of "Kraken" to the drunken waltz "Dinner is Served" and effusive reel "Tow Hornpipes." The German-born vet deftly introduces the film's creepy new villain with style via the evocative, shrewdly underplayed "Davy Jones" while interpolating Badelt's familiar Black Pearl theme into "Hello Beastie" and elsewhere. Closing the album with an energetic — if wholly incongruous — nod to dance floor marketing is DJ Tiesto's trance remix "He's a Pirate."

Hans Zimmer & Joshua Bell - Angels & Demons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack, Classical
Released: 07 May 2009

Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack, Classical, Original Score
Released: May 08, 2006

It is tempting to think that even Hans Zimmer, a composer who has written music for cinema projects large and small — mostly large — for decades, would be intimidated by the responsibility of composing an original soundtrack score for Ron Howard's film adaptation of Dan Brown's pulp fiction blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. Apparently not. While the music here holds some of Zimmer's trademark dynamic and textural tropes, it is remarkably fresh and expertly nuanced. The high degree of melancholy in the first three sections — "Dies Maercurii I Maritus," "L'Espirit des Gabriel," and "The Paschal Spiral" — creates a remarkably brooding tension and a speculative sense of foreboding. The first of these, "Dies Mercurii I Maritus," with its piano and hovering stings, does give way to a large pastoral theme a little over halfway through, but even it is re-introduced by eerie, sparse strings (Hugh Marsh's solo violin playing throughout is his highest achievement yet in a career full of them) before they begin to pulse with suspense. Even here, Zimmer holds some of his cards in check, because this theme gives way to more complex shades, colors, and emotions that don't so much resolve as lead the listener in further. The cues on "Fructus Gravis" that assert themselves about a minute in and carry it out on a swirl of strings, soprano voices and piano, provide for one of those moments in film scoring where the entire range of emotion and ambivalence is revealed. The longer pieces, the aforementioned "Dies Mercurii," "Ad Arcana," "Daniel's 9th Cipher," and "Rose of Arimathea" carry within them those necessary elements not simply to color the screen narrative, but to underscore its meaning, its emotional transference, its sense of confusion, terror, and the impending revelation of a truth long buried. The use of faux Gregorian chant here is ingenious; it never feels contrived or simply layered in for authenticity. It is a genuine creative force and pushes the music into the nooks and crannies where dimension is what makes texture and pace come together in an instructive and creative whole. While this is to be expected in the larger cues, it's often in the incidental music a score falters, loses its place inside the bigger themes, yet Zimmer's control and vision holds firm and carries the listener on a journey that not only points toward the film it illustrates, but one of deep resonance that borders on the spiritual. No matter what aural side projects are created as a cash-in, this original score will stand on its own and should — if there is any critical or commercial justice — become a classic. One does wonder what happened to the planned collaboration with Armenian duduk master Djivan Gasparyan, who isn't present, but it's a small question in the end.

Various Artists - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Hip-Hop/Rap, Music, Soundtrack
Released: Nov 08, 2005

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once (Music from the Motion Picture) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack
Released: 14 August 2007

Brian Tyler - Fast & Furious - New Model. Original Parts. (Original Motion Picture Score) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Hip-Hop/Rap, Rap, Soundtrack, Original Score
Released: 02 April 2009

Brian Tyler - The Expendables 2 [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: Aug 14, 2012

Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Original Soundtrack) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack, Classical
Released: 2009

Various Artists - Trance (O.S.T) [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music
Released: 22 March 2013

M83 - Oblivion (feat. Susanne Sundfor) - Single [iTunes Plus AAC M4A]

Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Soundtrack, Electronic
Released: March 26, 2013