The aim of a film score is to encapsulate the mood of the movie, to add an aural element to fully immerse the viewer in the storyline. The very best of these can stand alone as albums in their own right, like the scores to Grease and The Godfather, or soundtracks to films such as Pulp Fiction or Vanilla Sky. The encapsulation of a mood makes The Internet’s debut sound like a film score, but the mood it encapsulates is hard to grasp.

The duo’s laid back electronica is reminiscent of The Dust Brothers’ score to Fight Club, though where that was able to stand alone as an album regardless of the film and feel like it could accompany your own mental collapse and not just that of Edward Norton’s character, Purple Naked Ladies sounds like it needs specific visual accompaniment to allow the listener to relate to it in some way.

Opening track ‘Violet Nude Women’ is an instrumental that would fit perfectly over the opening credits of many films while ‘Cunt’ could soundtrack any film’s ‘dream sequence’ with ease. ‘Love Song -1′ and ‘Visions’, two of the best songs on the album, are so short they sound as if they were edited to fit a scene rather than to work as part of an album. That these could potentially fit into any film demonstrates how removed it all sounds.

If one mood is created by The Internet on this album then it is that of detachment, leaving you feeling that there it is incomplete in some way. Were the album to be the score to a film it could have been possible to relate the music to something more tangible. As it stands, Purple Naked Ladies is a good album let down by its lack of any real emotion or feeling.