Charm is the soundtrack to the debut feature film by underground filmmakers and members of the band the Lies, Sarah Reed and Sadie Shaw. The movie is a beautiful, brutal and surreal rumination on apathy and violence with one foot in the horror genre. With musical direction and sound engineering by Tim Green of the Champs, the soundtrack ranges from Green's spare, haunting compositions ("Main Title Theme") to eerie, disconnected covers that warp the original meanings of the songs (The Face Family Players' version of "You've Really Got a Hold On Me"). The Aislers Set contribute the instrumental "Another Day" which simultaneously captures the lull of the mundane and the spark of magic that foreshadows surreal events, and the otherworldly garage rocker "Attraction Action Reaction" which sums up the sound of creative isolation. Removed from the visuals of the film, tracks like Deerhoof's fuzzy, blown speaker-sounding "Appetite" are virtually unlistenable. But, other highlights include the discordant, atmospheric noise of David Scott Stone's "Pause On the Street," the vocal-free dream pop by the Replikants on "Memory," Dodgy Smurf's cut and scratch intensity on "Teenage Angst Bullshit" and the glassy, ominous goth punk of the Lies' "Wrong Kind of Flirt." This album is the sound of alienation and numbness, and the intense emotion and horror that can emerge from such feelings. ~ Charles Spano, All Music Guide