Album review: 'Young Adult: Music From the Motion Picture'

Mikael Wood reviews the soundtrack to Jason Reitman's new film, "Young Adult," which stars Charlize Theron. The soundtrack is full of low-effect alt-rock acts such as Teenage Fanclub, the Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr.. Listening to these songs one after the other -- as they might have been presented on a handmade mixtape from the mid-1990s -- you think about the shift in tone that's taken place in pop since then, from that era's once-ubiquitous slacker vibe to today's fixation on harder-better-fa...

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