Music - AppleTV+’s Shrinking Soundtrack will be available tomorrow

By Mulder, 23 march 2023

Apple TV+’s Shrinking Official Soundtrack will be available tomorrow from WaterTower Records, featuring an original score by Tom Howe and the main title theme, Frightening Fishes, which Howe co-wrote with Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard. The season finale will also be released on today at 12am ET on AppleTV+.

Shrinking follows a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people's lives … including his own. Starring Harrison Ford, Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, and Luke Tennie.

It was announced in October 2021 that Apple TV+ had ordered a ten-episode season for the series, which would star Jason Segel, who co-created alongside Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence. In April 2022, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, and Lukita Maxwell joined the cast, with James Ponsoldt joining the production as a director and executive producer.

Production began in April 2022. The series was released on January 27, 2023, with the first two episodes premiering together and the rest releasing on a weekly basis. It has a total of ten episodes in the first season.[10]

Tom Howe co-composed the score and Main Title Theme for the hit Apple Original series, Ted Lasso with Mumford & Sons' Marcus Mumford.  As a multi-instrumentalist, Howe has collaborated with songwriters including Marcus Mumford, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Blake Mills, and has written several international Top 40 hits. Howe is also the composer for The Great British Baking Show and its spin-offs; family movies including A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, The Amazing Maurice, and Early Man, for which he was Annie nominated; and sweeping nature documentaries including BBC's The Mating Game. Tom Howe is an award-winning composer from the UK who has scored over 100 Emmy and BAFTA-winning dramas and documentaries. Tom Howe has also written music for several major motion pictures, including Fox's Exodus: Gods and Kings, Warner Bros' Wonder Woman, and Legend of Tarzan.

Composer Tom Howe composed the Original Score for Shrinking and co-wrote the main title theme Frightening Fishes (Main Title Theme) with the Death Cab For Cutie’s front-man Benjamin Gibbard. Howe has collaborated with the series' creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein (aka “Roy Kent from Lasso) on series including Ted Lasso, Whiskey Cavalier, and Head of the Class. This is Howe's first collaboration with Jason Segel. Howe and Gibbard collaborated over phone calls and Zoom to rework one of the score cues into the theme song. The lyrics of the song are partially inspired by Gibbard's childhood memories of watching documentaries about the nightmarish fish at the bottom of the ocean.

Shrinking was renewed for a second season on March 9, 2023.

Synopsis : 
A grieving therapist begins to break the rules and tell his patients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making changes in people's lives... including his own.

Shrinking
Created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein
Starring  Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Christa Miller, Harrison Ford
Theme music composer : Benjamin Gibbard and Tom Howe
Composer : Tom Howe
Executive producers : Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein, Neil Goldman, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, James Ponsoldt, Randall Keenan Winston
Producer : Kip Kroeger
Cinematography : Jim Frohna
Editors : James Renfroe, Katie Abel, Missy Hernandez, Peggy Tachdjian
Production companies : 3 Chance Productions, Corporate Mandate, Doozer Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Original network : Apple TV+
Original release January 27, 2023 – present
Running time : 29–37 minutes

Photos : Copyright Apple TV+

(source : press release)