Silva Screen Records has released a new soundtrack album for the BBC comedy Ludwig. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Nathan Klein (101 Dalmation Street, Atomic, Film Club, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, The Beast Within, Psycho Therapu, McGregor Forever). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s Ludwig Overture after the jump. The label has previously released an album featuring Klein & Finn Keane’s score from Season 1 back in 2024. Ludwig is created by Mark Brotherhood and stars David Mitchell, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mark Bonnar, Sian Clifford, Diplo Ona, Dylan Hughes, Dorothy Atkinson, Ralph Ineson and Karl Pilkington. The series follows the titular master puzzle-setter who is now a Crime Scene Consultant working on ‘impossible’ crimes for the Cambridge Police Authority. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ludwig’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 20, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Ludwig, Nathan Klein, score, Soundtrack
‘Lion’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Andrew Christie, George Hutson Warren, Hans Zimmer, Lebo M, Lion, National Geographic, Niccolò Pacella, score, Soundtrack
The details of the soundtrack album for the National Geographic original event nature documentary series Lion have been revealed. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Gladiator, Dune, Inception, Rain Man, Pirates of the Caribbean), Niccolò Pacella & George Hutson Warren and produced by Bleeding Fingers’ Russell Emanuel, with additional vocals from the Nairobi Chamber Chorus. Zimmer, Andrew Christie & Lebo M have written the series’ main theme. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, August 21 by Hollywood Records. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link. Lion is narrated by O.J. Lynch and executive produced by Jon Favreau and BBC Studios Natural History Unit’s creative director Mike Gunton. The 4-parter chronicles the remarkable four-year journey of a tiny lion cub named Kio as he becomes a king. Read the rest of this entry »
Original Song ‘Está Cabrón Ser Bueno’ from Netflix Film ‘Facing El Chapo’ Released
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Chava Cartas, DAR, Facing El Chapo, La Captura, Netflix
Netflix Music has released the original song Está Cabrón Ser Bueno from the Mexican Netflix original film Facing El Chapo (La Captura). The track written and performed by DAR is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. Facing El Chapo is directed by Chava Cartas and stars Alfonso Herrera, Noé Hernández, Héctor Kotsifakis, Paola Fernández, Juan Pablo Cruz García, Antonio Fortier, Allan Durrell, Gerardo Trejoluna and Fernando Cuautle. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Rambling Rose’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Elmer Bernstein, Martha Coolidge, Rambling Rose, score, Soundtrack
Virgin Records has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for the 1991 drama Rambling Rose directed by Martha Coolidge and starring Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas and John Heard. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Far from Heaven, Airplane, Ghostbusters, The Age of Innocence). Also included is Louis Armstrong’s Dixie and Ruth Etting’s If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the Bernstein’s first track (“Hello – I’m Rose”) after the jump. The label has previously released the original soundtrack album on CD in 1991. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Boy & the Heron Symphonic Suite for Piano and Orchestra Album’ Announced
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Hayao Miyazaki, Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron
Deutsche Grammphon has announced the release of The Boy & the Heron: Symphonic Suite for Piano and Orchestra, a concert adaptation of the score for Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning 2023 animated feature The Boy and the Heron composed by Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle). The fourteen-piece suite offers Hisaishi’s personal interpretation of the film, following Mahito’s emotional journey through grief, memory, and imagination, balancing intimate piano writing with rich orchestral textures. The music was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The album will be released digitally and physically on November 6. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version and click here to order the vinyl edition. A first track (Ask Me Why (II)) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out after the jump. Studio Ghibli has previously released the original 2023 soundtrack album. Read the rest of this entry »
‘We Are All Strangers’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Anthony Chen, Kin Leonn, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Foguenne
Kin Leonn (The Breaking Ice) has released a soundtrack album for Singaporean drama We Are All Strangers. The album features the film’s original music composed by Leonn & Thomas Foguenne (Trouble Girl, Stranger Eyes, Who’ll Stop the Rain) as well as a track by Charlie Lim. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to Leonn’s title track after the jump. We Are All Strangers is written and directed by Anthony Chen and stars Koh Jia Ler, Yeo Yann Yann, Regene Lim and Andi Lim. The final installment in Chen’s Growing Up trilogy follows the emotional journey and growing pains of a constructed family as they grapple with class divides in a shifting world. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Young to Score Christian Kang Bachini’s ‘Haunting Skies’
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christian Kang Bachini, Christopher Young, Haunting Skies
Christopher Young (Hellraiser, Spider-Man 3, Sinister, Drag Me to Hell, The Hurricane, Ghost Rider, The Shipping News, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) is attached to score the upcoming feature adaptation of the indie horror novel Haunting Skies. The film is directed by the book’s author Christian Kang Bachini and will star Natasha Halevi and Emily Ashby. The movie imagines an Earth already conquered by alien invaders who abduct the remaining survivors for grotesque experiments, including a young girl possessed by Satan, and follows the last surviving exorcist as he devises a plan to get her aboard the alien mothership and make a deal with the Devil to turn Hell against the invaders. Read the rest of this entry »
Richard Reed Parry’s Sea Shanty ‘Last Man’ from ‘Widow’s Bay’ Released
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Richard Reed Parry, Widow's Bay
Milan Records has released the original sea shanty from the seventh episode (entitled Seasickness) of the Apple TV original series Widow’s Bay. Available to stream/download on all major digital music services is The Last Man co-written (with Neil Casey who provided the lyrics) and performed by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry. Also listen to the song after the jump. The label has previously released a full soundtrack album featuring David Fleming’s original score from the first season of the show this past May. Widow’s Bay is created by Katie Dippold and stars Matthew Rhys, Kate O’Flynn, Stephen Root, Kevin Carroll, Kingston Rumi Southwick and Dale Dickey. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Outer Banks’ Season 5 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: August 19, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Fil Eisler, Netflix, Outer Banks, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a new soundtrack album for the streamer’s original series Outer Banks. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fifth and final season composed by Fil Eisler (Revenge, Empire, How to Be Single, Thunder Force, Momo, Fire Country, UnReal, Proud Mary, The Titan, Superintelligence). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 20 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s first two tracks below. The label has previously released two albums featuring the composer’s score from Season 3 & Season 4 back in 2023 & 2024. Outer Banks is created by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate & Shannon Burke and stars Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Drew Starkey, Carlacia Grant, Austin North, Fiona Palomo, J. Anthony Crane and Cullen Moss . Read the rest of this entry »
Son Lux’s & Bilal’s Original Song ‘Now I’m Listening’ from ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ Released
Posted: August 18, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Bassam Tariq, Bilal, Son Lux, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
This Is Meru has released the original song Now I’m Listening from the Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. The track written by the film’s composers Son Lux (Everything Everywhere All at Once, *Thunderbolts) and featuring vocals by Bilal is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is written and directed by Bassam Tariq and stars Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Abubakr Ali, Tramell Tillman, Laith Nakli, Tiffany Boone, Adia, Jahleel Kamara and Giancarlo Esposito. Read the rest of this entry »
