
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is scoring one of the new Black Mirror episodes
22 May 2019, 17:19
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
Award-winning Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is creating the soundtrack for Black Mirror's forthcoming Smithereens episode.
Sakomoto scored 2015's The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio, and has today revealed the first taste of his upcoming score for Season Five of Black Mirror with "this is my last day ".
The Japanese composer is scoring the Smithereens episode of the new season.
Yesterday (21 May), trailers for the three new episodes were released.
A trailer for Miley Cyrus' episode also landed yesterday, revealing her role as a troubled pop star.
Tracklist:
- meditation
- plot
- this is my last day
- hayley
- prey
- chain smoking addict
- chase
- reverse surface
- closing in
- countdown
- retreat
- flashback
- gun is real
- shot
- degrade
- car crash
- this is my last day
- memory of a single moment
- release
Listen to "this is my last day" over on Pitchfork. Ryuichi Sakamoto's Black Mirror soundtrack will be released on 7 June via Milan Records.
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