This theoretical supergroup has a deliciously dark, nervous energy to it, propelled by analog synthesizers popular during the late ’70s and early ’80s. “I was thinking, ‘OK, well, what if Wendy Carlos and Kevin Haskins, the drummer of Bauhaus, who is a friend of mine, and Martin Gore from Depeche Mode and Terry Riley and Syd Barrett were all in a band? What would it sound like?’ So I’m thinking about the people that Natasha is mentioning… a supergroup in my head.” In thinking through the score, he had a jumping off point in Lyonne’s musical inspirations for the season. Composer Joe Wong summarized the score’s ethos as, “We take everything past its logical conclusion and see what happens on that next step.”īut of course Wong needed to account for a couple of different next steps, as Season 2 spans trips not only to the gnarly East Village of the ’80s but also war-torn Budapest in the ’40s and East Berlin in the ’60s. There is a sometimes lurching, sometimes breakneck, sometimes skidding momentum to both the soundtrack and the score of Season 2, not unlike a late-night subway lurching its way towards Brooklyn. Oscars 2023: Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions Oscars 2023: Best Production Design Predictions 'The Watcher' Teaser: Jennifer Coolidge Is a Karen in Ryan Murphy's Twisted True Crime Story for Netflix 'In Her Hands' Review: The Clintons' Netflix Afghanistan Doc Is a Massive Misfire “Some of the music that we used in Season 1 had this quality of, like, looping, whereas some of the music in Season 2 had this quality of propulsive back-and-forth… based on the trains and that linear quality.” “We definitely wanted to feel like its own universe separate from Season 1,” Rose said. Music supervisor Brienne Rose and composer Joe Wong spoke to IndieWire about creating a soundscape for Season 2 that retains the series’ core sensibility while also adapting to the latest spacetime trap Nadia finds herself in: going back in time to her mother’s and (eventually) her grandmother’s eras, and trying to see if she can create a future slightly less messed up for herself.
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