Review Summary: Lowkey kinda sucks
Here we have a soundtrack that is big when necessary. The production is immaculate, giving way to horns so very blaring they may startle on your drive to work. Along with sudden string escalations and general stacatto, volcanic blasts, this soundtrack conveys dramatic moments with little subtlety. However, one overarching melody ties the whole thing together rather lazily, in a derivative manner, the like of which had been done in previous Spider-Man entries.
The main ingredient that keeps the soundtrack’s flavour is continuous flow. Ideas change or interchange at a fast pace, and always with the intention of catchy beats. This is where fun is meant to be a factor, and it does work during movie watching. Listening to the music alone though, is not recommended. The volume is either much too loud or quiet. Also, the songs either have too much going on, or not enough. They try to be cutesy and disguise that problem with some nifty fills and earthquake percussion, but it’s evident they’re just filling time until the next bombastic track or section.
The soundtrack lives and dies based on its louder, more “exciting” tracks, and there are many. Sadly, outside of one main, repetitive melody, memorable moments are hard to come by. Pushing one overall theme makes sense, but in doing so the musical plot is lost. They blow their load, so to say, on one catchy hook. Melody is almost completely forget throughout the album to compose intense tracks. It’s an exaggeration to say that, but it’s also true that the album is a bunch of noise that doesn’t have the same inspiring melodies from previous Spider-Man entries.
