Remember Amelie’s soundtrack by Yann Tierson? A beautiful pairing of accordion and piano helps aid in the beautiful pairing of this remarkable soundtrack with its film. Soft, down-tempo piano ballads that lure your silent sadnesses out of the stale air depths in your bottom lung folds in quiet gasps alternate with up-tempo, uplifting compositions whose warmness burns in splintered pattens just below your skin. There are a few early-model radio recordings thrown in their too, masterfully, mysteriously fusing seamlessly with the complicated, modern classical recordings.

I may have said this before about other albums, but this album has the power to save your life. It will life you up from dark places, throw you a rope in a pit of sinking quicksand, cast shade over the fiercest sun, and provide a gentle breeze to your sailboat in a ripple-less pond. Not to be underestimated.