The album opens with the Autobot and Decepticon themes. The former is a soaring, heroic them with horns and strings; it makes you want to cheer.

It is immediately followed by the much more dark and menacing sound of the Decepticons. There is a bit more of an electronic touch, and it is highlighted by these deep chanting male voices, it is rather unsettling and is made even more unsettling by counterpoint female vocals that come in midway through the cue. In tandem, these two tracks set up much of what you will hear for the remainder of the album.

Next up is "The All Spark," the big MacGuffin. It is another heroic theme, a little softer but heroic nonetheless. It captures an almost reverential tone, appropriate considering what the All Spark means to the Transformer race.

There are a number of notable cues throughout the disk, although they all work together some are hard to ignore. Among my favorites are the immediacy of "Deciphering the Signal," the militaristic intensity of "Scorponok," the playfulness of "Sam at the Lake," the epic sorrow of "Cybertron," and "Optimus vs. Megatron" that brings the Autobot and Decepticon themes together in the final battle.

Seriously though, it is hard to go wrong if you are looking for music that is as big as the films stars are. This may be my favorite kind of score.

As much as I love and appreciate the quitter scores (like Notes on a Scandal), and the synth/non-traditional scores (like The Fountain), the ones I seem to come back to time and again are the bigger scores. You know, scores like Star Wars, Superman, and Pirates of the Caribbean. This fits right in with those big scores.

Bottomline. What are you waiting for? Go get it! It really is a fun score that fits in perfectly with the bombastic film. I am very glad that this score is seeing the light of day, as it works so much better than the pop/rock album that came out. I am fairly new to the score album game, but there is so much great music out there it is hard to ignore. This is one to add to the collection.

Highly Recommended.