I realised when writing about the Marie Antoinette soundtrack that I hadn't yet noted this one.
So, what to say? Well, to start with, it's totally lovely - starry-eyed and broody and dreamlike, just like the film. Two unimpeachable classics in "Sometimes" and "Just Like Honey", new Kevin Shields which feels immediately as if he never went away (even if they're not the sonic odysseys comprising Loveless or the same chaotic beauty as the jagged slices on Isn't Anything), and some other incidental and song-type stuff which all coalesces into exactly the kind of downbeat mood confection that Lost in Translation requires, is, and depends on (though I could have done without the Phoenix and Happy End tracks in the middle). And it is also wonderful on its own terms.
