Of all of the soundtrack albums of more recent titles that I've been playing of late I keep coming back to this one and the score to and Abel Korzeniowski's "Penny Dreadful".
Both are outstanding examples of both excellent scoring of both shows by two talented composers and scores that worked very well apart from the shows they were composed for on CD or as a Digital Download.
In the case of "The Leftovers" it's currently only available as a digital download, but don't let that put you off (Luddites, give it rest already before you bitch and moan), it's just a really outstanding release that I would a the very least urge you to listen to the samples (or watch the show, which while uneven really picked up stream by the end of the season).
PENNY DREADFUL was a disappointment to me (and I usually dig everything Abel does), but I absolutely ADORED Richter's THE LEFTOVERS. By far the best tv score of the year, IMO, tapping into the religious sound that I love so much. Great show too, clearly inspired by stuff like LES REVENANTS.
The disc release of season 2 was just a CD-R with pretty poor packaging etc, so stick with the download.
It's a shame, I think the music for the three seasons would make a great 2-disc set (if they would consider re-releasing the first disc with an amended tracklist). There is great music in this show.
The Leftovers was a good example of great music looking for a great show. Instead, all it got was this dreary, too serious, mishmash that couldn't decide if there was something supernatural happening or not. And I watched the whole thing. Don't understand the hype.
Must say that physical season two release was very disappointing so I'm just relieved it didn't cost me much more than the download. Lesson learned, anyway.
Spent this last week watching all 3 seasons of this show.
Amazing and beautiful show with just as amazing and beautiful score/music! Max Richter is a genius in this one. They also used a lot of other songs/cues which was not by Richter. But it was all very clever and amazingly done! Can't stop listening to the 3 soundtracks now!
Very weird that the season 3 soundtrack only lasts for 13 minutes, lol! But I guess perhaps they didn't make much new music for that season? I noticed most of the cues was already been used for the first two seasons. And released.
I am in a physical mode right now and I deperatly want The Leftovers - season 2 CD (just ordered season 1). Does anyone know if there actually was any physical release for season 2? I can find traces of it but EVERYWHERE I look it`s just unavailable...it`s only 2 years old, did they perhaps only make 1500 copies or something?
Anyone knows or have any tips?
And I assume season 3 was never released physically since it`s so short.
I listened to all available Leftovers music, and was disappointed to find that the best cue (Matt’s theme, Season 3) didn’t appear. It was blatantly Richter, so I took a listen to his available discography on Spotify to see if it was pre-existing Richter they had tracked in. It is. ‘November’ from the album Memoryhouse, although they appear to have used the re-recording from Portrait: Max Richter album. Just in case anyone is interested.
