Apple’s workplace dystopia spawns epic electronic music work
‘Severance‘, Apple TV+’s weird-fi smash hit set in and around the corporate daydream created by the sinister and cult-like Lumon Industries, is a firm Electronic Sound favourite.
From its set design to its strange out-of-time sense of some kind of future from the past, ‘Severance’ is a triumph. Its use of music is no less surprising. The theme tune and incidental music is composed by Theodore Shaprio, with tracks from I, Monster, Radiohead and that other fine head band Motorhead among many others sprinkled in its unsettling audio world, it’s as sonically satisfying as it visually.
This is a world where a child floor manager plays Moog theremin to sooth the workforce (the Moog Theremini’s white plastic pebble design fits the show’s aesthetic perfectly), so it’s no surprise that Apple TV+ have just launched an eight-hour ‘Severance‘ music video, ‘Music To Refine By‘. Ideal for the strange number-wrangling task the Lumon employees undertake in their workstations, or for playing in your flotation tank, the music comes courtesy of American electronic music twosome Odesza. Their releases in the UK were handled by Ninja Tune, and their relationship with Apple goes back to when their music soundtracked the launch of the iPhone X in 2019.
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