Mary & George (Original Series Soundtrack)

Preeminent cellist / composer Oliver Coates follows his scores for ‘Aftersun’ and ‘Foe’ with a stately string and electronic orchestration for Tudor and Stuart-era period drama ‘Mary & George’. Coate’s score draws on his roots in classical, electronic and club music to accompany an adaptation of the non-fiction book ‘The King’s Assassin’ by Benjamin Woolley, which outlines the romantic affair between King James VI and I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

The score sees Coates reaching for a suitably lavish palette of strings, from symphonic to puckered chamber arrangements, sometimes underlined with Burial-esque beats and choral pads, as in ‘France’, or alloying the two in a way recalling Nicholas Britell’s ‘Succession’ soundtrack. There’s enough harpsichord to make the ruffed-necks swoon, and Coates takes the license to distort sounds to taste when necessary, resulting a clear highpoint in his work, both solo and for film.

Tracklist

Side One
1. Timp X
2. G In Motion
3. ‘Howl & Freeze’
4. ‘Hunt’
5. ‘The Centre Of The Universe’
6. ‘Pulp’
7. ‘1 Minute 1 Life’
8. ‘France’
9. ‘Joy’
10. ‘ Two Weeks’
11. ‘How We Rise’

Side Two
1. ‘SCARS’
2. ‘Haunt’
3. ‘Slay’
4. ‘Present Danger’
5. ‘Mary Chopper’
6. ‘Release An Angel’
7. ‘Pig Mob’
8. ‘Butoh Baby 2’
9. ‘La Badinage Marias with outside sustain’
10. ‘Burning’
11. ‘Androgyny, lie in bed’
12. ‘Regicide’
13. ‘He Shall Ascend’