A24 Music releasesMaXXXine (Original Score), by recording artist and film composer Tyler Bates. It’s the sonic companion to the explosive final chapter of writer-director Ti West’s X trilogy. Bates has been an integral part of the series since its inception: He partnered with celebrated goth rocker Chelsea Wolfe on the haunting score for X,and worked alongside award-winning composer Tim Williams to create the sweeping, late-Romantic orchestral backdrop forPearl. Bates returns for the trilogy’s highly-anticipated conclusion, cultivating an immensely suspenseful aural world for MaXXXine. Ornamented with bouts of sultry saxophone, the score compliments the 1980s Hollywood framing of the movie, in which adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) finally gets her big break.
In 2004, Bates crafted the menacing audio background for the popular Zack Snyder reboot of Dawn of the Dead. It kicked off a prolific run of nearly a dozen box-office number ones, which collectively grossed over five billion dollars. His credits include Deadpool 2, Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and 2, and the entire John Wick franchise alongside collaborators as high profile as Rina Sawayama. After Dawn of the Dead, Bates and Snyder teamed up for the films 300, Watchmen, and Suckerpunch. His oeuvre expanded to include movies including Atomic Blonde, The Devil’s Rejects, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and William Friedkin’s Killer Joe. His television resume includes the shows Californication, The Punisher, The Purge, Kingdom, Salem, The Exorcist. More recently, he worked on CBS’s Tracker and Peacock’s Criminal Minds.
While Bates has made a name for himself scoring some of the world’s most prominent cinematic franchises, his reach extends far beyond Hollywood. Outside of the studio, he has performed for audiences across the world and pulled strings behind records from the likes of HEALTH, BUSH, Jerry Cantrell, In This Moment, and Starcrawler.
Stream the original score for MaXXXine via A24 Music and see the film in theaters everywhere now.
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