The Nostalgic Glow of the Movie Soundtrack

To that end, I Saw the TV Glow has something in common with the biggest non-franchise movie of the past few years: Barbie . (The truly opaque pink.) While the two movies couldn’t feel more different in terms of scale and subject—other than some of Barbie ’s broad-strokes platitudes about identity and gender—Greta Gerwig’s movie also made the music ... See more

It’s fitting, then, that A24 and director Jane Schoenbrun have staked a large part of the movie’s experience on another relic of the pre-streaming era: the compilation soundtrack. The I Saw the TV Glow OST is the type of project you don’t see much of in 2024. It’s a who’s who of indie music mixed with a handful of rising artists, all providing orig... See more