Lost in the music
This is Giacchino's greatest achievement thus far. Although he follows the same outline as the previous series, he provides in this soundtrack a more extended and dramatic sound that is both complex and rich. Romancing the Cage and Shambala are to pieces that really help describe the magic that is Lost and Giacchino.

4 out of 5
Great music from a great show. My only problem is that they could have included more of the thematic moods that Giacchino has been known for- for instance, Desmond's theme could have been expounded on. 2nd disc is continuous TV score and is a bonus that can't be overlooked. Great price as well.

buy this 2 1/2 hour masterpiece!
This is by far the best Michael Giacchino has ever produced. It beats the first 2 season soundtracks, it is more refined and elaborately worked out.
High praise!! It is also a must for every hifi selling shop to use it as a demonstation disc. It's almost an audiophile recording, who needs superaudio when Varese Sarabande gives you this!!!!Thank you Michael.
Buy this album! Don't download it,it's a waste of a good sounding product,please yourself and buy it! Did I mention that you should buy this album? Do it!!!! Bye and greetings from amsterdam, holland.

Still excellent
Once again, Michael Giacchino performed a beautifull soundtrack, with powerful musics like "Dharmacide", "Hold the phone" or "Looking Glass half full".

I can't wait till the release of the Season 4 OST !!

Absolutely amazing!
I was greatly looking forward to this soundtrack, and let me tell you, it did not disappoint. Well, okay, there were a couple of little things. But overall, this is quite simply fantastic stuff.

Much of Giacchino's music for this series can be categorized as quiet and emotional, frenetic and action-packed, or suspenseful and eerie. Occasionally, something more lighthearted enters the mix, though that side of things is mostly absent from this season's soundtrack. The variety of music is really wonderful, though it certainly maintains a very strong stylistic unity. To anyone who doesn't like it, I would HIGHLY recommend giving it a few more chances. I still remember the days when I thought Lost's music was so dumb. My subsequent change of attitude could not be any more profound. Trust me...this is GREAT stuff.

I won't bother describing every single track, but suffice it to say that this soundtrack brings a lot of new material to the table. Most of season 3's new themes can be heard on it, along with new statements of older themes and--interestingly--a number of themes from seasons 1 and 2 that hadn't been included on their soundtracks. The result is a very satisfying album.

The flow of the first disk is, I think, much better than that of the second, but I'm totally fine with that because the second disk presents every single cue from the season finale. Sacrificing flow for amount of content is never a bad thing in my book; if we really want, we can always create out own playlists that omit the tracks that are less interesting to us.

My one initial disappointment with this album (aside from the minor sounds from the studio, which aren't nearly as unusual as some of y'all may believe) was the track "Dharmacide"--ironically, the one I'd been looking forward to the most. Apparently, the cue was significantly edited for its use in the episode "The Man Behind the Curtain", and I gotta say, I prefer the edited version. At first, I thought this was simply a different recording with a different structure, but then I realized that all of the elements were still there, but in different order and with a few additions. So it's actually possible to reconstruct the (IMO) vastly superior version heard in the show. I just finished doing so, and I'm quite happy with it. =D

But yeah, buy the album! And don't neglect to buy the soundtracks for the first two seasons, too.