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The Radio Dept.’s “Strange Things Will Happen” brings irony and joy with lyrics about taking in the beauty of what’s around you and living every moment like it’s your absolute last *ugly cries* with lines like “today was a pretty day/no disappointments” and “autumn comes with these slight surprises where your life might twist and turn”. While I’m absolutely Team “Let Me In” because it perfectly captures the relationship between Augustus and Hazel and her fears of hurting him, I was also impressed by what The Radio Dept. and Birdy contributed to the album. All of the tracks have a light and delicate feel to them (including Grouplove, Charli XCX, and STRFKR) and an overabundance of melancholic indie tracks ( Ray LaMontagne, M83, Indians, Tom Odell and Kodaline) successfully chronicle the plot line of being young kids in love that just so happen to have cancer too. Ed Sheeran gives his vocals to its theme song, “All of the Stars,” and even did a double promo for his album and TFIOS on NBC’s The Voice in the form of a duet with contestant Christina Grimmie. The entire soundtrack consists of very folk-sy sounding singer-songwriters types like Jake Bugg (who helps the listener envision the small town life in “Simple As This”) and Lykke Li (who contributes the saddest song on the entire soundtrack in “No One Ever Loved”). Each track brought the story to life in one of the best ways possible and I haven’t been able to say that in I don’t even know how long. So in my review for Grouplove‘s “Let Me In” I had mentioned that I had yet to read the book, but now that I’ve read it…just ‘wow!’ The soundtrack for John Green’s tear-jerker of a novel-turned-film The Fault In Our Stars only adds to the emotion with a majority of the tracks written specifically for the movie.