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Press & Reviews, Scores, Video Games

Premiere: Listen To Pedro Bromfman’s ‘Cop Trouble’ For EA Games’ ‘Need For Speed: Heat’ | Mxdwn

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“Cop Trouble” opens with vibrant percussion that exudes a sinister tropicalia vibe, with the beats-per-minute increasing as each second goes by. It’s the perfect soundtrack for churning through the humid streets of Palm City or across an expansive semi-tropical wilderness. – Matt  Matasci, Mxdwn

Lakeshore Records together with EA Games will release the soundtrack to Need For Speed: Heat, available digitally Friday, November 8!  The album features score by Pedro Bromfman, known for his score to EMMY®– and Golden Globe®-nominated Narcos hit series.  Listen to the debut track, “Cop Trouble” exclusively at mxdwn.  Keep reading to view the album track list and more about Need For Speed: Heat, the street racing game from EA!

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Scores, Video Games

‘Anthem’ Composer Sarah Schachner Talks Composing For Video Games and That Game Awards Performance! | Twinfinite

But it’s more than just the appearance of Anthem’s world that makes it so compelling. It has a palpable atmosphere that really draws you into the mystery of its sci-fi meets fantasy aesthetic, and for me, that’s in no small part due to a superb musical score. – Alex Gibson, Twinfinite

As an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and modular synth artist/programmer, critically-acclaimed Composer Sarah Schachner who many know from her Call Of Duty and Assassin’s Creed game scores talks to Twinfinite about her Anthem video game score (out now on Lakeshore Records and EA Games), one of the most exciting game music releases of the year! Even if you haven’t played the multi-player role playing game developed by game titans BioWare and Electronic Arts (EA), just know the music has been praised by critics for its cinematic, world-building composition, right in that sweet spot for film music fans.

Senior Editor Alex Gibson jumped at the chance to interview Sarah and you can check out the full story now at Twinfinite!

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

Anthem, from its inception, has always been something that we wanted to be very different from a Dragon Age or Mass Effect or even Baldur’s Gate.” It began, he says, with a question: “How do you tell a story, how do you have an amazing game, in a cooperative space where your friends are telling the story with you?”

Play Anthem now at Anthem online.

Scores, Video Games, Vinyl

Battlefield V Picture Disc Vinyl From Record Store Day

Did you score all the records you’ve been dying to get your hands on for Record Store Day 2019? If you missed out on the Battlefield V soundtrack on vinyl (score by Johan Söderqvist and Patrik Andrén), the epic video game soundtrack release in partnership with EA Games and Lakeshore Records, we got our hands on a limited number of copies, and it’s headed to our web store very soon! Be sure to sign up specifically for this drop on the email here to get notified the moment we release it.

We repeat, this is a limited number we will have on hand, so don’t snooze on this one.

Download and listen to the digital album here.

Press & Reviews, Scores, Video Games

Review: Apex Legends Video Game Score By Stephen Barton | A Closer Listen

The intro blasts the motif with background percussions reminiscent of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” and dissonant strings that emphasize the excitement and the anticipation of participating in this deadly myth… Apex Legends is short, but Barton turned that into the OST’s greatest strength. – A Closer Listen

The good folks at A Closer Listen review Stephen Barton’s (Titanfall, “12 Monkeys” Series, Call of Duty 4) epic score to Apex Legends, the EA/Respawn game that made headlines when it broke records gaining 25 million users in just one week upon its launch in February 2019 (now 50 million players)! This review provides a perspective between a standalone listening experience and hearing the music during in-game play for context! Are you a fan of Apex Legends? Let us know what you think of the video game score below!

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

Scores, Video Games, Vinyl

New Soundtracks: Apex Legends, Anthem, The Dragon Prince + Vinyl Records!

New Lakeshore Records releases this week include the EA Games co-releases, Apex Legends (Stephen Barton) and Anthem (Sarah Schachner), and The Dragon Prince Season 1 and Season 2 animated series scores (Frederik Wiedmann)! And for the record collectors, the highly-anticipated score vinyl release to Altered Carbon and Legion Season 2 (both scores by Jeff Russo, hit shelves now! See listening and purchase links below.

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