Soundtracks (Can album)
Soundtracks is a compilation album by the Krautrock group Can. It was first released in 1970 and consists of tracks written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band's original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to be replaced by new member Damo Suzuki. Stylistically, the record also documents the transition from the psychedelia-inspired jams of their earliest recordings (i.e. "Monster Movie" and "Delay 1968") to the more meditative, electronic, and experimental mode of the studio albums that followed (such as "Tago Mago" and "Ege Bamyası"). The back cover of  the album states: "CAN SOUNDTRACKS" is the second album of THE CAN but not album no. two ... Album no. two ["Tago Mago"] will be released in the beginning of 1971. "She Brings the Rain", originally appearing in the 1969 film "" by Thomas Schamoni (brother to directors Ulrich Schamoni and Peter Schamoni), was later featured in Wim Wenders' 1994 film "Lisbon Story", the 2000 Oskar Roehler film "Die Unberührbare" and Tran Anh Hung's film "Norwegian Wood", released in 2010. "Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone" features Damo Suzuki's first recorded performance with Can. Reception. In a  review in "Stylus Magazine", Nick Southall called "Soundtracks" "a strange beast of a record" that "appear[s] directionless", but has some "absolutely sublime moments". Dominique Leone wrote in "Pitchfork" that while many of the tracks on "Soundtracks" lack the "artistic reach" Can achieved on "Monster Movie" and other albums, they are not "throwaways". Leone called "Mother Sky" the album's highlight, adding that it "has an intensity matching anything on the debut". In a review "Soundtracks" in AllMusic, Jason Ankeny remarked: The dichotomy between the two singers is readily apparent: Suzuki's odd, strangulated vocals fit far more comfortably into the  group's increasingly intricate and subtle sound, allowing for greater variation than Mooney's stream-of-consciousness discourse. In March 2005, "Q" magazine placed "Mother Sky" at number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.