Lakeshore Records is set to release 
Murdaugh: Death in the Family—Original Series Soundtrack digitally today, November 7, with an original score by Emmy-nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist Ariel Marx (Dying For Sex, Black Mirror). Marx’s singular knack for creating strikingly dissonant and atmospheric soundscapes creates an unsettling tone for the horrific true story of the Murdaugh murders case. New episodes of the series are streaming now on Hulu.
Maggie and Alex enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legal dynasties. But when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is faced with a test unlike any they’ve ever encountered. As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family’s connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear.
Note Marx: “I’m excited to team up with Lakeshore again to release the score for Murdaugh: Death in the Family. With brushstrokes of acoustic guitars, jaw harps and processed woodwinds, this album explores the southern underbelly and tragic legacy of the Murdaugh family.”
Track List
- Moselle
- Don’t Mention This
- Burned Alive
- Fugue State
- We Found Her
- Watch Your Step
- Don’t Have A Heart
- Love You, Son
- In Your Blood
- Burn It All
- Liar, Liar
- All I Hear Is Noise
- Good Ol’ Boys
- You Are Vast
- Pretty Bird
- I’m Sorry
- Plenty To Mourn
- Go On and Ask
- Big Damn Cat
- Foggy As Fuck
- Caught
- What A Tangled Web We Weave
Buy/Stream the Album: https://lnk.to/Murdaugh
ABOUT ARIEL MARX
An Emmy-nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel Marx draws from many genres and often combines orchestral and rare instruments with electronics to create unique worlds of sound. Her scores have premiered in films at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Woodstock, Criterion Channel, as well as films and shows on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, FX, HBO, Mubi, Discovery+ and more. She is a member of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and is a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab alumni.
In 2025, Ariel received two Emmy nominations for her original scores for the FX series Dying For Sex (starring Michelle Williams) and Netflix’s Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie. These honors follow her previous Primetime Emmy nomination for National Geographic/Disney+’s A Small Light. In addition, she was nominated as Television Composer of the Year at the 2025 World Soundtrack Awards. She scored Neon’s Sanctuary and continues to be recognized for her ability to elevate storytelling through music.
Ariel is currently scoring several projects, including 20th Century Studios’ The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Hulu’s Murdaugh Murders, and the BBC limited series Two Weeks in August.
Some of Ariel’s other projects include UCP/Peacock’s A Friend of the Family, UCP/Hulu’s Candy (ranked number 3 in Indiewire’s Best TV scores of 2022), and FX/Hulu’s American Horror Stories. Her other works for film and television also include Utopia’s Shiva Baby, HBO’s The Tale, Shudder’s Birth/Rebirth, Magnolia’s Next Exit, Discovery+’s Rebel Hearts, Amazon’s Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, FX/Hulu’s Children of the Underground, and Good Deed Entertainments To Dust, among others.
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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