On paper, the idea of using instrumental, old-timey piano styled versions of popular songs in “Westworld” seems a bit cheeseball. However, like pretty much everything else in HBO‘s hit series, the idea worked pretty brilliantly in execution. And as you patiently wait for the second season to arrive in 2018, the full soundtrack has been released to kill at least some of that time.
All the tracks you heard in the show including jams from Radiohead (“No Surprises,” “Motion Picture Soundtrack,” “Fake Plastic Trees,” “Exit Music (For A Film)”), Soundgarden (“Black Hole Sun”), The Rolling Stones (“Paint It Black”) and more are here, along with Djawadi’s standard score work as well. It all adds up to a sonic trip back to the theme park, but without all the mindbending timelines and duplicity.
The 2-disc, 34-track “Westworld: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)” is now available digitally. Listen to it in full below.