Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the British Netflix original series Dept. Q. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award and Grammy Award winner Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit, Godless, Lessons in Chemistry, Monsieur Spade, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Hacks, Griselda, Chupa, Ezra, Just Beyond). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 29 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. Dept. Q is created by Scott Frank & Chandni Lakhani and stars Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, Leah Byrne, Mark Bonnar, Alexej Manvelov, Shirley Henderson, Kate Dickie and Kelly Macdonald. The crime thriller is based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s novels and follows a brash, but brilliant cop who becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh’s cold cases.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (May 25, 2025)
Premiering tonight is the TNT original series The Librarians: The Next Chapter developed by Dean Devlin & John Rogers and starring Callum McGowan, Jessica Green, Bluey Robinson and Olivia Morris. The show’s original music is composed byJoseph LoDuca (The Evil Dead, Xena: Warrior Princess, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Chucky, Leverage) who previously scored the original The Librarians television movies and TV series. Check out our previous article to learn more about the fantasy adventure drama, which will air every Sunday night on TNT.
Premiering on Thursday, May 29, is the Prime Video limited series The Better Sister created by Olivia Milch & Regina Corrado based on Alafair Burke’s book and starring Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, Corey Stoll, Matthew Modine, Kim Dickens, Gloria Reuben, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Gabriel Sloyer, Bobby Naderi and Lorraine Toussaint. Will Bates (Immaculate, Dumb Money, The Magicians, The Life List, Unbelievable, Away, I Origins, The Path, The Looming Tower) has composed the show’s original music. Check out our scoring assignment announcement for more information about the 8-part crime thriller, which will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video.
Carlos Rafael Rivera Scoring Netflix’s ‘Dept. Q’
Carlos Rafael Rivera (Lessons in Chemistry, Griselda, Ezra, Chupa, Just Beyond) is the composer of the upcoming British Netflix original series Dept. Q. The show is written and directed by Scott Frank (The Lookout, Logan) and stars Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Alexej Manvelov, Kelly Macdonald and Leah Byrne. The crime thriller/drama is based on the novels of the same name by Jussi Adler-Olsen and revolves around a former top-rated detective in Edinburgh who gets assigned to a new cold case whilst wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralyzed and another policeman dead.