Netflix - Stranger Things Season 2 , a great score

Par Mulder, 19 octobre 2017

Lakeshore Records, in conjunction with Invada Records, will release the double album Stranger Things 2 - Original Netflix Series Soundtrack digitally on October 20th. The album will also be available on CD later this year, with an LP forthcoming. The double album features the original score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, members of the Austin experimental synth band S U R V I V E.

“In Season 2 we’re introducing new styles of composition, while still revisiting old themes when appropriate,” said composers Dixon and Stein. “We’ve created new elements to support the story, but still want to remain true to the sound of Season 1.”

In Stranger Things 2, which premieres on Netflix October 27th, it’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the Demogorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.

EMMY-winning and Grammy-nominated Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, half of the Austin band S U R V I V E, traveled back in musical time to score the award-winning Netflix original series “Stranger Things.” Series creators The Duffer Brothers tapped the duo due to their classic synths spun into distinctly modern sounds—and the resulting alchemy produced a Primetime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, two Grammy nominations for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, an ASCAP Composers' Choice Award nomination for TV Composer(s) of the Year, and a World Soundtrack Award nomination for TV Composer(s) of the Year. Dixon and Stein, both Texas natives, were born in the early 1980s when the inspirations for “Stranger Things” were being made. They met as teenagers and both gravitated towards the analog, electronic tones of their childhoods. S U R V I V E has quickly exploded from being a hip Austin act to touring the U.S. and Europe, and the band recently released their second studio album, “RR7349.”

Stranger Things 2 will debut globally on Netflix on October 27. Lakeshore Records, in conjunction with Invada Records, will release the double album Stranger Things 2 - Original Netflix Series Soundtrack digitally on October 20th and on CD later this year with an LP forthcoming.

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein performing the music of Stranger Things live dates:
3rd November 2017 – Toronto Unsound, Toronto, CAN – Tickets Here
8th November 2017 – The Ace Hotel Theatre, Los Angeles, USA – Tickets Here
3rd April 2018 – Barts, Barcelona, SP
5th April 2018 – BRDCST Festival, Brussels, BE
6th April 2018 – Rewire Festival, The Hague, NL
7th April 2018 – Barbican, London, UK

The Album tracks:
01. Walkin In Hawkins
02. Home
03. Eulogy
04. On The Bus
05. Presumptuous
06. Eight Fifteen
07. The First Lie
08. Scars
09. I Can Save Them
10. Descent Into The Rift
11. Chicago
12. Looking For A Way Out
13. Birth / Rescue
14. In The Woods
15. Digging
16. Symptoms
17. Eggo In The Snow
18. Soldiers
19. Choices
20. Never Tell
21. She Wants Me To Find Her
22. Shouldn’t Have Lied
23. It’s A Trap
24. Crib
25. The Return
26. Escape
27. We Go Out Tonight
28. Connect The Dots
29. The Hub
30. On Edge
31. What Else Did You See?
32. Run
33. Levitation
34. To Be Continued

Bonus Tracks / disc deluxe edition :
01. Turn On The Lights
02. Sick Of Cow
03. Power Maintenance
04. Roars From The Lab
05. Mercy
06. Shadow In The Tunnel
07. A Familiar Shape
08. Tree Slime
09. Do You Accept The Risk?

Synopsis:
Stranger Things is set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana, during the early 1980s. The nearby Hawkins National Laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the United States Department of Energy, but secretly does experiments into the paranormal and supernatural, including those that involve human test subjects. These start to affect the unknowing residents of Hawkins in calamitous ways.

Stranger Things
Genre: Science fiction, Horror, Supernatural, Period drama
Created by The Duffer Brothers
Starring : Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, Matthew Modine, Noah Schnapp, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery
Composer(s): Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein

Photos: Copyright Netflix

(Source : press release The Krakower Group)