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Soundtrack From Twin Peaks (1990)
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“Audrey’s Dance” gets its attitude from the bass and little snaps of percussion. “Laura Palmer’s Theme” makes a much longer climb out of a low, uneasy beginning. Julee Cruise’s singing adds another kind of intimacy to an album that keeps changing its mind about whether you should feel at home.
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COWBOY BEBOP (1998)
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Yoko Kanno’s first album for the series has room for the fast jazz of “Rush” and the long saxophone phrases of “Space Lion.” Listen for how much the playing opens out on the latter. You can spend time with this as a Seatbelts record and follow the musicians between moods just as readily as you can follow the show.
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Succession: Season 1 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (2019)
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Try “Andante in C Minor” next to its solo piano version. The same phrases can feel polished in one setting and exposed in the other. Britell also varies the end-title music for brass and for piano and cello, which makes the album a good place to hear what a change in instrumentation does to a familiar thought.
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Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) (2019)
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Recordings from Lithuania’s Ignalina nuclear power plant helped shape Guðnadóttir’s score. The low pressure of “Bridge of Death” and the machinery-like swell of “Turbine Hall” ask you to pay attention to how a sound changes as it hangs in the air. The Homin Lviv Municipal Choir makes the contrast audible on “Vichnaya Pamyat.”
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The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series) (2014)
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Start with the spare melody of “The Departure,” then hear how Richter lets it surface again in “Departure (Lullaby)” and “Departure (Home).” Since the shapes are easy to remember, you can notice even small changes in their weight. The album leaves the music room to gather meaning through repetition.
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Black Mirror: San Junipero (Original Score) (2016)
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“Night Drive” keeps moving under a low electronic pulse, while “Waves Crashing on Distant Shores of Time” lets the harmonies hang around much longer. Mansell’s cues make a compact, gently unsettled synth album. Its shifts in distance are still easy to hear without the episode’s familiar pop songs.
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Game of Thrones: Season 6 (Music from the HBO Series) (2016)
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“Light of the Seven” can hold your attention with a repeating piano figure before the organ deepens the tension. “Hold the Door” puts that patience to a different use, drawing out the sadness in a much shorter cue. Start with those two to hear how Djawadi can make time itself feel different within the same album.
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Lost: Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack) (2006)
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The aching melody of “Life and Death” and the urgent strings and brass of “Hollywood and Vines” could almost be from different shows. Giacchino makes room for both without leaving the island’s atmosphere behind. The album is particularly good at changing the pace between long stretches of attention and sudden movement.
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Battlestar Galactica: Season One (Original Soundtrack) (2005)
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A repeating pattern under the strings gives “Passacaglia” something solid to return to even as the music grows. “Wander My Friends” brings in a vocal with a very different sense of scale. The two cues make this a good album for hearing the human bonds inside a large science-fiction story.
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Doctor Who: Series 5 (Original Television Soundtrack)
“I Am the Doctor” turns an insistent rhythm into a cue that seems always about to dash off somewhere. The longer lines of “Amy’s Theme” offer a calmer place to settle. Start with those themes and follow the shorter episode cues to hear how Gold keeps the characters recognizable when the action changes.
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NHK Taiga Drama 'Yae No Sakura' (Original Sound Track) (2013)
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After Ryuichi Sakamoto’s main title, the first volume opens into Nobuyuki Nakajima’s score. Try the multi-section “Kibō” suite and then the piano-only version of “Junshin na Kokoro.” The change in scale makes the album a good way to hear how the drama finds room for private reflection alongside its larger historical story.
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The Queen's Gambit (Music from the Netflix Limited Series) (2020)
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Start with the piano-centered “Beth’s Story,” then follow the three “Borgov” cues to hear how the music changes the pressure of a chess match. A board and two still figures leave Rivera a lot of space to set the pace. The album lets you hear the way that tension accumulates across several meetings.
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Squid Game (Original Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) (2021)
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Compare the small, playfully uneven sound of Jung Jae-il’s “Way Back Then” with the unnerving voices of Kim Sung-soo’s “Pink Soldiers.” The first makes room for a little childhood play. The second makes repetition feel like an order that will be obeyed. That uneasy company is what makes the album hold up away from the series.
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Severance: Season 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) (2022)
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“Labor of Love” has the tidiness of music playing in an office where everything is supposed to be fine. The patient stretch of “Kimono Hallway” gives a very different sense of what might be around the corner. Shapiro makes the change in atmosphere legible with small musical gestures.
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The White Lotus (Soundtrack From the HBO Original Limited Series) (2021)
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“Pineapple Suite” and “Jungle Fever” make the resort feel busier and stranger than a genteel hotel soundtrack would suggest. Hear how percussive sounds and voices jostle in the foreground. Tapia de Veer creates a crowded atmosphere that can sound inviting and uncomfortable within the space of a cue.
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