Lakeshore Records is set to release
The Better Sister—Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack digitally today, July 11, featuring music by composer Will Bates (Immaculate). Bates sinister score creates a darkly atmospheric backdrop to the thrilling crime drama. The Better Sister is streaming globally in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on Prime Video.
The Better Sister, based on the book by bestselling author Alafair Burke, is an 8-episode electric thriller limited series about the terrible things that drive sisters apart and ultimately bring them back together. Chloe (Jessica Biel), a high-profile media executive, lives a picturesque life with her handsome lawyer husband Adam (Corey Stoll) and teenage son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) struggles to make ends meet and stay clean. When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, reuniting the two sisters, as they try to untangle a complicated family history to discover the truth behind his death.
Notes Bates: “The score for The Better Sister needed a nuanced and psychological approach that would move through the different characters perspectives as the story unfolds. I wanted to incorporate strong melodies, throbbing pulsing rhythms and a reimagining of the film-noir aesthetic. Sonically there is a balance of the familiar and the unexpected. I sourced more unusual instrumentation including large steel girders from a building site. As layers of secrets are revealed throughout the series, Nicky and Chloe’s melodic identities evolve into a darker context as we learn that all is not as it seems.”
Track List
- A Complicated History
- Dead Husband
- Telling Ethan
- Pre Mortem Coitus
- Sister Watching Sister
- Nicky Arrives
- Back With A Warrant
- Ditching The Phone
- Your Dad’s A Fucking Asshole
- Switchblade
- Killer Chad 69
- Mysterious Package
- Nicky As Witness
- Suspect Arrested
- Put It Out Of Your Mind
- The Time Will Come
- Talking To Ghosts
- Troy
Purchase / Stream: https://lnk.to/TheBetterSister
ABOUT WILL BATES
Will Bates is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist and founder of Fall On Your Sword.
Bates has composed original scores for a myriad of filmmakers including acclaimed directors Mike Cahill (Another Earth; I Origins; Bliss), Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks; Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Zero Days; The Forever Prisoner) and Craig Gillespie (The Better Sister; Dumb Money).
Bates’ upcoming projects include Eric Lin’s Rosemead, starring Lucy Liu, which premieres at Tribeca Film Festival on June 6th; Hulu’s two-part documentary tv series Call Me Alex, which premieres at Tribeca Film Festival on June 8th; Paramount+’s NCIS: Tony & Ziva; Rob Burnett’s In Memoriam, starring Marc Maron and Lily Gladstone; Daniel Roher’s Tuner, starring Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall; and more.
Bates’ film and television credits include Netflix’s The Life List, directed by Adam Brooks; NEON’s Immaculate, directed by Michael Mohan, which premiered at the 2024 SXSW; Dark Sky Films’ Blackout, directed by Larry Fessenden; FX’s Class of ’09; AMC+’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches; Dean Craig’s comedy film The Estate; Netflix’s mini-series Devil in Ohio; Starz’s Sweetbitter; the Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Netflix mini-series Unbelievable; and drama/sci-fi series Away; SyFy’s hit series The Magicians; and the George R.R. Martin produced series Nightflyers; Hulu’s series The Path; Chance; The Looming Tower; and the biographical documentary, Hillary; NBC’s Rise; Michael Tyburski’s drama film The Sound of Silence, which received the grand jury prize nomination at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival; Michael Mohan’s thriller The Voyeurs; and more.
As a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist, Bates has recorded and toured around the globe under the name of his own post-punk band The Rinse and has collaborated with Electric Six front-man Dick Valentine as The Evil Cowards. As a saxophonist, Bates has collaborated with legendary artists ranging from 60’s icon Lulu to techno legend Marshall Jefferson. As a producer and composer, he has worked with a similarly diverse bunch including Mike Rutherford, Roy Ayers, Pussy Riot and Morcheeba’s Skye Edwards.
In 2007, Bates created the first of a series of videos under the name Fall On Your Sword. His videos quickly went viral on YouTube, racking up hits in the millions and an explosive FOYS live act soon followed.In 2009 Fall On Your Sword evolved into a music production and audio-post company.
Bates currently resides in Los Angeles.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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