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The Complete “Stranger Things” Season 3 Score from Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein is Now Available!
Simply put, “Stranger Things” wouldn’t be “Stranger Things” without the music, and we’re not just talking about the rockin’ 80s tracks featured throughout. One of the most important aspects of the Netflix series is the score, which has been composed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein since the beginning. The duo is back for Season 3, and their score is now available!
Ahead of Season 3’s hotly-anticipated arrival on July 4th, you can now stream the complete Season 3 score digitally through iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify.
Track titles like “The First I Love You,” “Destroying the Castle” and “She’s Gone Home” may give you some clues about the upcoming season, and the music itself paints a picture of a melancholic season wherein the kids, well, they’re starting to realize that they’re not exactly kids anymore. In fact, there’s a track titled “Not Kids Anymore” that just might make you cry.
On the more upbeat side, the fun track “Starcourt” is essentially the ultimate ’80s mall anthem, while eerie tracks like “Rats” take you into the Upside Down with spooky sounds.
I continue to be blown away by how beautiful Dixon and Stein’s music is, both retro and fresh at the same time, and I cannot wait to hear these tracks in the context of the show.
Start streaming while you wait for Season 3 to arrive on July 4th!
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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