With his 2004 film
Garden State
and its enormously successful soundtrack, director/actor
Zach Braff
helped kick-start the careers of several different indie rock outfits that were lesser-known at the time. Acts like
the Shins
rose to much wider-reaching acclaim as a result of the emotional entwinement between the events of the film and the songs that underscored the drama. Ten years later,
Braff
's film
Wish I Was Here
was framed loosely as a follow-up of sorts to
, offering a similarly toned soundtrack of introspective indie rock and coming-of-age classics. Along with older material from artists such as
Paul Simon
,
Jump, Little Children
, and
Badly Drawn Boy
, the soundtrack also features new songs recorded exclusively for the film by
Bon Iver
, and a collaboration between
Coldplay
and
Cat Power
. ~ Fred Thomas