If you haven’t watched or even heard about Netflix’s newest and most buzzed about original TV series Stranger Things, then you must live under a rock. Starring Winona Ryder in a creepy town in Indiana, the biggest breakout of the whole series is undoubtedly the music score. With the series paying homage to 1980s horror flicks, it was a given the team had to enhance the creepiness with an eerie synth-heavy score.
After directors Matt and Ross Duffer used a track by S U R V I V E for the first Stranger Things trailer, they reached out to members Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein to score the whole series for them. In a press release, Stein noted:
“We discussed having a classic tone and feel to the music for the show but being reserved enough that it wasn’t ’80s cheese, while offering a refreshing quality so that felt modern…. Having a familiarity with classic synths worked, but with an overall forward thinking approach.”
Since the July 15 launch of Stranger Things on Netflix, hundreds of articles have been circling the net raving about the score. Due to overwhelming demand, Netflix came forward and promised a couple of weeks ago that an original soundtrack would be available “soon,” and thank goodness soon means this Friday. The OST will be split into two volumes, with the first volume available digitally this Friday, August 12. The second volume is out the following Friday, August 19. Physical copies will be available starting in September, with Volume 1 dropping on September 16, and Volume 2 on September 23.
Check out the tracklist for Volume 1 below.
Stranger Things, Vol 1 (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack)
01 Stranger Things
02 Kids
03 Nancy and Barb
04 This Isn’t You
05 Lay-Z-Boy
06 Friendship
07 Eleven
08 A Kiss
09 Castle Beyers
10 Hawkins
11 The Upside Down
12 After Sarah
13 One Blink For Yes
14 Photos in the Woods
15 Fresh Blood
16 Lamps
17 Hallucinations
18 Hanging Lights
19 Biking to School
20 Are You Sure?
21 Agents
22 Papa
23 Cops Are Good at Finding
24 No Weapons
25 Walking Through the Nether
26 She’ll Kill You
27 Run Away
28 No Autopsy
29 Dispatch
30 Joyce and Lonnie Fighting
31 Lights Out
32 Hazmat Suits
33 Theoretically
34 You Can Talk to Me
35 What Else Is There to Do?
36 Hawkins Lab