Because many albums called "Soundtrack" are just more or less regular albums that try to capitalize on the success of a movie, we have to make this clear right from the start: this REALLY IS a soundtrack of the movie by Jim Jarmusch, and not a Neil Young album in the true sense - if there ever was such a thing as a typical Neil Young album.
Dead Man features Johnny Depp reading poetry by William Blake, dialogs, and sequences with wind noises, cars, and chirping birds. While Neil Young's voice is not to be heard, his music speaks for itself. Besides pump organ and some other instruments, he mainly plays his electric guitar. Part of the time it is just used for producing noises, but there are also long sequences that are almost pure guitar solos, where his full brilliance shines through, in a more experimental way than usual. The pleasure is slightly spoiled by the constant wind noises that are layered under these outbursts.
Neil Young fanatics will certainly want this album, and people who saw and liked the movie will find it a great way to recall the images. Even if you didn't, these sounds might send you on a trip inside your imagination.
