Review from CDNow
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill guru Glen Ballard tries his hand at soundtrack production with this eclectic and occasionally entertaining companion to the apocalyptic sci-fi cartoon feature, Titan A.E. The album features a host of chart-topping modern-rock acts so carefully selected for demographic and genre-crossing appeal, they seem to have been chosen by focus groups.
Titan features techno, rock, pop, hip-hop, dance pop, reggae, and metal bands, all presumably in the service of some sort of inoffensive, something-for-everyone middle ground. British Stevie Wonder acolytes Jamiroquai delivers the mildly funky "Everybody's Going to the Moon"; the marvelous, underrated Texas contribute the atypically bloodless "Like Lovers (Holding On)" (like several of the other tracks here, produced by Ballard); Powerman 5000 does a better Marilyn Manson than Marilyn Manson's been capable of lately on the grinding and appropriately grim "The End Is Over."

It isn't all cookie-cutter formlessness: Titan is distinguished by its somewhat surprising number of should-have-been-A-Level-but-just-never-made-it acts, among them the Fun Lovin' Criminals (who turn in the memorable "Everything Under the Stars," the Urge (the not-as-memorable "It's My Turn to Fly"), and the aforementioned Texas.

Michigan rookies (and current Ballard proteges) Bliss sound generically fine on the poppy "Not Quite Paradise," one of the disc's best tracks. Titan A.E.'s most significant contribution may well be the now-dissolved Luscious Jackson's toneless swan song, "Down to Earth." Recorded by band member Jill Cuniff and a co-producer, it feels more like the beginning of Cuniff's solo career than the end of Luscious Jackson.