Remember those heady days when Garden State came out?
When Natalie Portman made you fall in love with The Shins, Zach Braff seemed like the coolest dude-bro around and contemporary folk still hadn't been ruined by Mumford & Sons?
Of course you do, and it seems Braff does too, because he's gone and made the exact same soundtrack all over again.
There's no doubting Braff's taste in music, but the soundtrack to his second feature film, Wish I Was Here, features many of the same names, including Paul Simon, Coldplay (via a smouldering Cat Power on the title track) and The Shins, and mines the same mellow, whimsical, lovelorn aesthetic.
Sure, securing exclusives from Bon Iver on the beautifully stuttering Heavenly Father, and The Shins' haunting So Now What are big gets, and Japanese Wallpaper's Breathe In is still a stunner. But 10 years on from Garden State, this feels a little more calculated to tug at the heart strings.
