I’ll have a lot more to say about I Saw the TV Glow in a couple of weeks, so today I’ll just note that it has one of the year’s best soundtracks.

Consisting of both music written for the film and deep cut alternative rock songs, it lives in the same uneasy emotional space as the film itself. Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun said they wanted the soundtrack to be a “teen angst classic” and, well, mission accomplished.

I could have picked any of a handful of scenes from this film to highlight, including live performances of the elegant ‘Claw Machine’ by Sloppy Jane and Phoebe Bridgers or the bracing ‘Psychic Wound’ by King Woman.

I’m going with a scene from earlier in the movie that I feel captures the film’s nostalgic tone, its formal ingenuity, and its overall dreamlike quality.

Shy high school student Owen has bonded with an older classmate, Maddy, over a shared interest in a TV show called The Pink Opaque. In this clip, we see Owen (in an unbroken tracking shot) walking the halls of their school to pick up a VHS tape she has left for him. To mark the passage of time and their deepening connection with the show and each other, we see Maddy’s handwritten notes catching Owen up on all the details.

Something about the marriage of music and image in this scene grabs me by the throat. I’m not alone. One YouTube commenter wrote “The school hallway sequence changed the trajectory of my life,” which is exactly the kind of over-the-top fanaticism this movie both interrogates and invites.

[Note: You’ll have to click through to YouTube to watch the video]