Listen to extracts from Alice in Wonderland "Almost Alice" soundtrack

Starting proceedings is the Avril Lavigne song, “Underground Alice” to be played over the film’s end credits which we’ve already discussed (see Related Content, right), and after that we get a tantalising taste of the other songs on show. Not all of them are ready to listen to (we’re still awaiting “Strange” by Tokio Hotel and Kerli, “Tea Party” by Kerli and “White Rabbit” by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals), but the high-profile players are there and together they make a really eclectic, contrary bunch.

Current hot property, Owl City join the party with “The Technicolor Phase” which is just as electro-whimsical as we’ve come to expect from the chart-toppers and there’s further poppiness with “Follow Me Down” from 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch and “Where’s My Angel” by Metro Station. Mark Hoppus and Pete Wentz’s collaboration, “In Transit” seems quite mellow and introspective for the punky rockers and perhaps a bit more Blink 182 (on a quiet day) than Fall Out Boy, while adding a tougher rock edge are Wolfmother with “Fell Down a Hole” and Shinedown with the anthemic “Her Name is Alice”.

Perhaps the most successful in working that offbeat Tim Burton/ Danny Elfman vibe are Plain White T’s with “Welcome to Mystery” and Franz Ferdinand whose flair for story-telling is brought out in “The Lobster Quadrille” which boasts typically quirky and quotable lyrics. However, the true stand-out for us is Robert Smith’s version of “Very Good Advice”, the cute ditty Alice sings to herself in the 1951 Disney version of the story. Spot-on!

Listen to the song snippets for yourself here and let us know what you make of the collection. Do the songs knit together well or are they too disparate to really gel? We wanna know your verdict.

[via Spin]