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From the moment Natalie Portman's character told Braff's, "You gotta hear this one song — it’ll change your life; I swear," that song playing "New Slang" by then relatively unknown indie band, The Shins was not just a moment for film but created a moment for the band. While The Shins may have been name dropped in the movie, music from artists like Coldplay, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake, Remy Zero all worked perfectly in the scenes they were used. Isolated from the film however, the songs flow like a brilliant compilation, taking fans of the film to the scenes in which they are played and taking those to that may have never seen the film to a new realm with a generally acoustic and subtle sounding soundtrack.