Lakeshore Records has released Blood Hive 3: Original Score from the TV Series Yellowjackets digitally today, timed with the season three finale of the Emmy-nominated SHOWTIME original series Yellowjackets. Composers Craig Wedren—frontman of the influential D.C. post-hardcore band Shudder to Think—and Anna Waronker of indie pop legends That Dog return to expand the haunting sonic landscape they crafted in the show’s first two seasons, pushing the score into even more experimental territory. The album also features their original track ‘Sleepwalking’, available now alongside a music video directed by Yellowjackets co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer Bart Nickerson.
“Season three was a kaleidoscopic moving-puzzle of interweaving stories, relationships, and timelines that allowed – and pushed – us to explore and expand in awesome new musical directions, while continuing to build upon the sound of the first two seasons,” note Wedren and Waronker. “From the forest floor, to frog orgies, to cave hallucinations, and finally to scoring Lottie’s murder with our new original song ‘Sleepwalking,’ we were encouraged by the story, the visuals, and our visionary producers, to explore and experiment sonically and harmonically, discovering whole new wings of the haunted, fractal funhouse that is Yellowjackets.”
“Sleepwalking,” which was partly inspired by Marianne Faithfull, plays during the opening scene of the finale. Wedren & Waronker note, “Both the music video and the episode are magnificently directed by Yellowjackets co-creator Bart Nickerson, and both capture the hallucinatory, delicious mystery of ‘the wilderness’ and its singular musical tapestry.” The pair also told Rolling Stone that the song “made everything shiver in just the right way, very Yellowjackets, while still feeling like a fresh, new dimension to the music we’d been writing all season.”