I've had this album for well over a year now and find myself going back to it constantly. Mark Snow has done a beautiful job working and reworking the haunting X-Files theme and expanding it with a more traditional orchestral sound. He thankfully resisted synths for the most part and the fuller and richer sound traditional instruments give it really elicit the romance I often find in the TV series. The romance I'm talking about is the romance of adventure and discovery rather than anything erotic. Snow's score retains the mystery of the series, but the movie has allowed him to reach further and deeper into his repetoire. The results are often epic. For some reason this score reminds of Jerry Goldsmith's excellent music for "The Wind And The Lion". Both have a soaring quality about them that I find intoxicating (albeit Snow's work here is more subtle). All the tracks are complete pieces unto themselves. None of them sound like bits of scoring that some scores are composed of. This is one of my favorite scores of the decade.