MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the BBC drama Mayflies. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Top Gun: Maverick, His Dark Materials, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time) & Joseph Stevenson. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Also listen to the composers’ title track below. Mayflies is written and adapted for TV by Andrea Gibb based on Andrew O’Hagan’s bestselling novel and stars Martin Compston, Tony Curran, Ashley Jensen, Rian Gordon, Tracy Ifeachor and Tom Glynn-Carney. The 3-part drama tells the story of two men whose 30-year friendship is tested when one of them is facing a terminal cancer diagnosis and asks the other to take him to Switzerland so he can end his life on his own terms. The drama premiered in the UK in late 2022 on BBC One and made its U.S. debut the following year on Acorn TV.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. Mayflies (2:34)
2. Why Me? (2:27)
3. Your Great Escape (2:29)
4. Things You Know at Eighteen (2:42)
5. Woodbine (4:05)
6. Old Friendship (1:45)
7. Made of Sunshine (2:21)
8. To Die Young (2:54)
9. Tully’s Letter (2:51)
10. Make Death Proud (2:48)
11. Tell Me What You Wrote (3:20)
12. The Second Cup (5:04)