One of the things that makes a remarkable television show is that it often feels like a long movie presented in hourlong installments as opposed to an episodic series. One of 's other remarkable attributes is its music, which, correspondingly, also feels more filmic than your average TV score. This disc collects all of 's cues for the first season, as well as ' which is a classic TV theme even though it's just 16 seconds long and its ominous drones barely qualify as music (in the conventional TV sense, anyway). Many of 's cues are spare, spooky, and percussion-heavy, emphasizing the show's pulse-pounding tension as well as its remote, quasi-tribal setting; for example, sounds like the theme to , or like the title itself says, the world's worst beach party. However, 's rattling percussion and shivery brass and harp show that knows how to turn it up when necessary. The score's quirky track titles are entertaining in their own right, sometimes because they capture the moment in the show exactly ( ), sometimes because they're incredibly incongruous: it's hard to reconcile that The Beautiful, Soul-Stirring Music That Accompanied 's Funeral is actually called There are terrible puns ( ) and subtle ones ( the music to which is a terrific homage to ), and nearly as many allusions to pop culture and literature as there are in the actual show ( is a particularly apt nod to , while refers to a ). However wacky the titles are, they don't detract from the impact of the music. is an especially lovely rendition of the show's main emotional theme, while captures the poignancy of 's background story and his new start on the island. With its urgent strings and brass, sounds like it could also appear on the to a Western; 's lively marimbas and harp evoke the all too rarely shown peaceful, pretty side of the island. The score even has a sense of humor (beyond the track titles) on the rambling acoustic piece that accompanied 's hilariously complicated, ill-fated attempts to catch his flight. While missed the opportunity to include the hit that had with his band Driveshaft, or 's charming rendition of geeks and buffs in general will be delighted to own this impressive score. ~ Heather Phares