How It Ends is the fourth album from the band DeVotchKa

DeVotchKa

DeVotchKa is a four-piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble. They take their name from the Russian word devochka , meaning "girl"...

, released by Cicero Recordings, Ltd. in 2004. The song "How It Ends" reached Number 101 in the UK Singles Charts.

Track listing

1. "You Love Me" – 4:02
2. "The Enemy Guns" – 4:21
3. "No One Is Watching" – 0:25
4. "Twenty-Six Temptations" – 4:12
5. "How It Ends" – 6:59
6. "Charlotte Mittnacht (The Fabulous Destiny of...)" – 3:06
7. "We're Leaving" – 4:42
8. "Dearly Departed" – 5:12
9. "Such a Lovely Thing" – 4:40
10. "Too Tired" – 4:00
11. "Viens Avec Moi" – 5:01
12. "This Place Is Haunted" – 3:19
13. "Lunnaya Pogonka" – 5:18
14. "Reprise" – 1:45

Popular culture

The album's eponymous song has seen increased recognition from employment over the years:

• in theatrical trailers for the films Everything Is Illuminated
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  ), Little Miss Sunshine
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  (2006
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  ) and Bottle Shock
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  (2008)
• in the soundtrack for Peter Mortimer's 2006 climbing film First Ascent,
• as a fixture of the commercial trailer for the video game Gears of War 2
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• in the season 4 promotional advertisement for Living TV's Ghost Whisperer
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  (2009),
• in a montage of Vanessa Redgrave
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  's films when she was awarded a fellowship award at the 2010 BAFTAs,
• in the season 4, episode 9 "Getting to Know You" of Everwood
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   in the 2005
• in the show stopping performance by Season 7's So You Think You Can Dance contestant Kent Boyd with partner Niel Haskel, choreographed by Travis Wall
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   (August 4, 2010).
• in a German Nutella
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The central instrumental melody in "Twenty-Six Temptations" references a theme from the Godfather

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films; one that first appears in "Michael Comes Home" from the Godfather II soundtrack.

Additionally, "Dearly Departed" appears in the 2010 film "Jack Goes Boating

Jack Goes Boating

Jack Goes Boating is a 2007 play by Robert Glaudini. An unconventional romantic comedy set in the midst of working-class New York City life, Jack Goes Boatings original production was directed by Peter Dubois and starred Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Jack, John Ortiz as Clyde, Daphne Rubin-Vega as...

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