Sometimes you hear a soundtrack album and you just think: why? Such is the case with 28 Days, a reasonably successful film. It's the sort of thing that usually produces a soundtrack full of big, comfortable hit songs that young women buy. But this album is 36 minutes long, half of which is taken up by an eclectic combination of songs, the sort of thing where one or two of them will appeal to someone but the rest won't; and the rest is Richard Gibbs's bizarre score. Now, nobody is going to watch 28 Days and come away thinking "Oh, I need to get that score"; and nobody is going to look at the album in the shop and think "Oh, that's a good collection of songs, I'll pick this up." So why release it? I do wonder.

The score is largely a sort of modern jazz collection, with a whole load of synthesisers and seemingly endless drum loops, the sort of thing that anyone could sit at a Yamaha and produce. Fortunately there are also a few more acoustic selections, such as "Can't Breathe", but even this is just a series of repeated violin crescendi and decrescendi. "Ode de Toilet" is much more interesting, in that it's fun, but again could be found numerous times elsewhere. "Better than What" seems to be the start of what could be a new trend, with a clear and fairly shameless nod to Thomas Newman's American Beauty.

This score is not so much bad as just being completely generic; yes, there are a number of different styles combined here, but each and every one of them has been done so much better countless times elsewhere. I really don't see the point of this album at all. Oh well.

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