Reply To: Bear McCreary
Thankfully, he DID curate a wonderful album for OUTLANDER (the first volume), as well as the spin-off album OUTLANDER: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD. These two are all I need from this franchise.
Don’t know the spinoff score yet (have in on my local libary streaming playlist) but the first OUTLANDER albums is nice. Although there are some new themes on the other seasons. I think one best of all season would probably a great listen. Maybe I do that some time 😉
There are some definite highlights in RINGS OF POWER, but it’s not the “Second Coming” like many make it out to be.
I think I probably will never call any score the “second coming” anymore but I agree that Shore set the mark very high. But within that boundaries McCreary did good without copying it right away.
By the way, I’m currently watching through THE WALKING DEAD again, from the beginning, on Disney+, but while I dig the show, I don’t want to own the music on CD.
Several years ago I had stopped right after season 6 and just last year I decided to finally binged the remaining seasons 7-11 after watching some older episodes to get into again.
THe music is somewhat unspectacular besides that weird main theme. Later seasons are primarily by his co-composer anyway.