Sexy TV series The Vampire Diaries now has an official soundtrack to match. Besides exclusive tracks from Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, Smashing Pumpkins and more, the compilation features Bat For Lashes, Placebo, and Sky Ferreira, whose song Obsession is the lead track on the album. Here is the tracklisting for The Vampire Diaries: Original Television Soundtrack.

1. Mike Suby - Stefan's Theme
2. Placebo - Running Up that Hill
3. Silversun Pickups - Currency of Love
4. Howls - Hammock
5. Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone (909 in the DarkTimes Mix)
6. Stateless - Bloodstream (Vampire Diaries Remix)
7. Goldfrapp - We Radiate
8. Sky Ferreira - Obsession
9. Digital Daggers - Head Over Heels
10. Jason Walker - Down
11. Mads Langer - Beauty of the Dark
12. Plumb - Cut
13. Sounds Under Radio ft. Alison Sudol of A Fine Frenzy - All You Wanted
14. Smashing Pumpkins - The Fellowship
15. Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill (Feed Me Remix)
16. Mike Suby - 1864

The Vampire Diaries: Original Television Soundtrack is now available on iTunes.

The second single off Goldfrapp's 80's inspired album Head First is Alive, and it comes with a classic oddball video featuring men in Kiss-style makeup dancing in the circle of Satan, being led by none other than Alison (with Farrah Faucet's golden aura if I may add) who then summons some ladies in aerobic costumes, who in turn change into vampires and sink their teeth into the Kiss look-alikes WHOSE BLOOD GLITTERS IN THE MOST RAINBOW-Y FASHION. YES ALL OF THAT WAS WRITTEN IN A SINGLE SENTENCE. Enjoy.

Electronic duo Goldfrapp, consisting of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals) and Will Gregory (synthesizer), have once again undergone a makeover in their fifth studio album, entitled Head First. Venturing into the funky synthesizer-heavy era of the 80's, Goldfrapp dives ‘headfirst’ (excuse the bad pun) into sweeping choruses, love couplets, and instrumentals reminiscent of ABBA’s Mamma Mia days.

Opening the LP is the lead single Rocket, an upbeat, synth heavy track with a simple yet effective chorus that goes, “Oh woah, I’ve got a rocket. Oh woah, you’re going on it. Oh woah, you’re never coming back.” Believer is easily my favorite song from the record. The ease of transition into the chorus is brilliant, and the chorus itself addictive. Goldfrapp’s next single, Alive, is quite the euphoric track in the LP, with Alison warbling, “Hello, hello” to the world. I have a fondness towards the somewhat wistful tone of Alison’s voice in Dreaming. Head First, the core of the entire LP, starts off sounding like an ABBA track but shifts in the chorus. Lyrically unimpressive, though I love the whole “head first in love” bit. Hunt has a beautiful melody, the lyrics powerful and the overall outcome haunting. Shiny and Warm is smooth, hypnotic, and lyrically suggestive. Another ABBA reminiscent track is I Wanna Life, which is pretty much the ‘album filler’ though in Head First’s case is a quite decent one. The LP ender, Voicething, sounds like a million of Alisons put together for a bird call, and the only message it’s getting across is ‘finally, the Rocket’s landed’.

Though Goldfrapp has been considered as frontrunners for deviating from the mainstream pop scene, their fifth album effort comes off sounding pedestrian with the likes of Lady Gaga, La Roux, Little Boots emerging in the industry. Head First gives us great yet unsurprising pop tunes. Recommended tracks? Rocket, Believer, Alive, Head First.