Although, we are few weeks away from the release date of the Official Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Soundtrack, it appears we have the first review already online.

JWFan.Net has posted the English translation of the first review of the official Indy 4 soundtrack which was posted by Mad Movies.

The review is extremely positive and has only minor spoilers. Here follows an excerpt:

Respecting the tradition of the series, the score of Indiana Jones 4 always rests on a clash between the themes of the different protagonists, the principal leitmotif (the famous MacGuffin, here a Crystal Skull of unknown power) serving both as the basis of the dispute and of a common objective. On one hand, Williams presents the good guys' themes, namely for Indy himself (whose exploits logically are illustrated by the Raiders March, which is put through every possible and imaginable tonality, denying sometimes the melody, but keeping only the recognizable rhythm) and his young sidekick Mutt (Shia LaBeouf). On the other side, Williams depicts musically the character of Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), main baddie of this new episode. If the overall structure remains the same as in the previous scores, the writing itself is more radical than ever, bringing to fruition the different sources of the composer (the jazz of Charles Ives, the operas of Mozart and Wagner, the tortured orchestrations of Bartók) and his last personal experimentations (the concrete music of War of the Worlds, the exclusively rhythmic usage of the brass in the last Star Wars score. It results a score not only of an expectational textural wealth, but also and especially in perfect contradiction with his era.

Read the full English Translation at JWFan.Net. Thanks to Dave Sanders for informing us.