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A shifting soundtrack for Ethan Burke’s arrival in Wayward Pines: hushed, pastoral textures give way to uneasy repetition, procedural tension, and the sensation that reality itself has been tampered with. The vocal half follows his isolation, suspicion, and fight to reclaim agency, while also hinting at the town’s seductive surface and the darkness beneath it.
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40 songs
1
The Landing
Justin Hurwitz · First Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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2
The Demon Dance
Julian Winding · The Neon Demon (Bande originale du film)
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3
Home
Disasterpeace · FEZ (Original Game Soundtrack)
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4
The Alien
Ben Salisbury · Annihilation (Music from the Motion Picture)
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5
The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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6
A Model of the Universe
Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Theory of Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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At the Door
Bear McCreary · 10 Cloverfield Lane
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8
The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
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String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14
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10
The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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11
Anvil
Lorn · VESSEL
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12
Open Eye Signal
Jon Hopkins · Open Eye Signal (Remixes)
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13
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream · Dream Sequence
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14
A Walk
Tycho · Dive
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15
First Snow
Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
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16
The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives · Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question
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17
Technically, Missing
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross · Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
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18
Prospectors Arrive
Jonny Greenwood · There Will Be Blood (Music from the Motion Picture)
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19
Window
The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place
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20
Montana
Tycho · Awake
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21
Cirrus
Bonobo · The North Borders
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22
Acid Rain
Lorn · The Maze To Nowhere
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23
In McDonalds
Burial · Untrue
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24
Greenland
Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs
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25
All Is Violent, All Is Bright
God Is An Astronaut · All Is Violent, All Is Bright (2011 Remastered Edition)
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26
Ashes in the Snow
MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra
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27
Hymn for the Greatest Generation
Caspian · Hymn for the Greatest Generation
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28
The Highest Flood
Forest Swords · Compassion
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29
Excavation (Part 1)
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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30
Boring Angel
Oneohtrix Point Never · R Plus Seven
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31
The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around
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32
People Are Strange
The Doors · Strange Days
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33
A Forest
The Cure · Seventeen Seconds
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34
Where Is My Mind?
Pixies · Death to the Pixies
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35
Every Breath You Take
The Police · Synchronicity (Remastered 2003)
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36
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival · Green River (Expanded Edition)
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37
I Put A Spell On You
Nina Simone · Great Women Of Song: Nina Simone
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38
Season of the Witch
Donovan · Sunshine Superman
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39
Red Right Hand
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Red Right Hand (Theme from 'Peaky Blinders')
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