EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Agency’, ‘The Great Lillian Hall’ And ‘Riff Raff’ Soundtrack Premieres This Week From Composers You Love

February 27, 2025

Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff

This week, composers Mac Quayle, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch and Adam Taylor debut their latest scores to their respective streaming series and films.  Let’s dive in below.  Remember to subscribe to Soundtracks, Scores and More and let us know which productions you’re looking forward to seeing!

Lakeshore Records is set to release The Agency—Original Series Soundtrack digitally on February 28, featuring an original score by Ivor Novello and BIFA-nominated composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (All of Us Strangers). The score is a sleek backdrop to the tension-filled series punctuated by intense and unique percussion and atmospheric analog synths.

“The Agency” starring Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere is streaming now on Paramount+ with Showtime.  

Says Levienaise-Farrouch: “The show contrasts Martian’s psychological unravelling with high-octane action sequences led by the London branch of the CIA. I wanted the music to embody the psychological tension the characters experience, as they are constantly pulled between their duties and personal desires.”

The music needed both a driving pulse and emotional warmth and was created using analogue synths, piano, string instruments playing extended techniques and drums, including everything from gran cassa to large oil drums and metal sheets. We were always searching for sounds that would be unexpected and give The Agency its unique musical DNA.”

Listen to “No Trace of Him” ahead of the full album release below.

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The Agency (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

Track List
01. Goodbyes
02. Martian’s Piano Theme
03. Coyote Car Chase
04. 1st Lesson
05. Shaking Off Grandma
06. Felix
07. No Trace of Him
08. Breaking Silence at 1600
09. Martian Sneaking Out
10. Ivanoff
11. Nothing is Personal
12. Therapy
13. Breakup
14. Both Sides
15. Your Mission Just Started
16. Home Visit
17. Osman’s Interrogation
18. Lie Bigger
19. You Are Trapped Too
20. Poppy Followed
21. Petrol Scheme
22. An Enemy
23. Volchok’s Gift
24. Guo Fight
25. If You Leave
26. You Choose
27. Convoy Attack
28. That’s Coyote
29. I’m in Teheran

ABOUT EMILIE LEVIENAISE-FARROUCH
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is a London based French composer and pianist acclaimed for her emotive and meticulously crafted scores. Emilie has garnered widespread recognition for her work on several high-profile films and dramas, including Living, All of Us Strangers, Censor, and The Agency.
Born in France, Emilie’s formal training in classical piano and composition laid the foundation for her career in film scoring. She has established herself as a versatile and sought-after composer by forging close and collaborative relationships with directors and filmmakers. Emilie’s work in film ranges from psychological horror (Censor, The Strays) to empowering coming-of-age dramas (Rocks), romantic fantasy (All of Us Strangers), and poignant dramas (Living).

Her score for Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Bill Nighy, won the Best Original Score In An Independent Film at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Emilie received an Ivor Novello Award nomination for her work on Prano Bailey-Bond’s psychological thriller Censor and her score for Rocks was nominated for Best Music at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA).

Emilie’s recent work includes the score for The Agency, a Paramount+ series directed by Joe Wright and starring Michael Fassbender, and The Assessment directed by Fleur Fortuné and starring Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel. The film premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

In addition to her film work, Emilie has collaborated with visual artists such as Danica Dakić, Alice May Williams, and Natasha Caruana. She has created music for video installations exhibited at Jerwood Project Space, Speke Hall, The ODI, Arles Photo Festival and VR installations for HOUSE Biennial. As a live performer she has performed at Tallinn Music Week, Brighton Festival, Union Chapel, Barbican and the BBC Proms.

Emilie’s debut album, Like Water Through the Sand, was released in November 2015 by 130701, followed by her second album, Époques, in the summer of 2018. Emilie’s track And Light Spills In was included on LEITER’s Piano Day Vol. I for Piano Day 2022. Emilie’s third album, Ravage, a deeply personal ‘mourning-diary’, was released in May 2022.

With a body of work that spans film, visual art, and music performance, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch continues to be a distinctive and influential voice in contemporary music, celebrated for her emotive and engrossing compositions that resonate across multiple mediums.

A fresh take on the critically acclaimed hit French drama Le Bureau des Legendes, the all-new political thriller follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

Lakeshore Records is set to release The Great Lillian Hall—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on February 28 featuring music by Emmy^®-winning, GRAMMY and BAFTA-nominated composer Mac Quayle (“Mr. Robot”).  Quayle’s darkly elegant orchestral score incorporates piano, electronics and strings that vividly accentuate the emotional challenges of a beloved, yet fading Broadway star. Notes Quayle: “This is a touching story about Broadway actor Lillian Hall and the sudden dementia she experiences. The music couldn’t be too big; it needed to be intimate; it needed to be classical but not quite right, almost a little broken. In a mostly orchestral score, it was exciting to blend darker electronic tones to underscore the tension and fear she was experiencing in moments when she was forgetting her lines or hallucinating seeing her dead husband.”

HBO Films’ The Great Lillian Hall starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe, Jesse Williams and Pierce Brosnan is streaming now on MAX.

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The Great Lillian Hall (Original Series Soundtrack)
Mac Quayle

Track List
01. A Lifetime Spent Observing
02. I’m Ready
03. 7 Letters For Washed Up
04. Goodbye Margaret
05. Count Me Out
06. Midnight In The Park
07. Set The Table, Wash Your Hands
08. Places, Please
09. Will You Kiss Me?
10. We’re Gonna Do This
11. I Was Seen
12. Where Is Lillian?
13. The Little Things
14. Our Day In The Sun
15. Welcome To Broadway
16. Opening Night
17. Such Love
18. The Great Lillian Hall

ABOUT MAC QUAYLE
Emmy-winning and GRAMMY and BAFTA-nominated composer Mac Quayle is a master of sonic storytelling, crafting distinctive musical soundscapes that captivate audiences. His approach to composition has left an indelible mark on acclaimed projects such as Mr. Robot, American Horror Story, and Leave the World Behind, directed by longtime collaborator Sam Esmail. Most recently, he’s written for The Great Lillian Hall, directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Kathy Bates, Pierce Brosnan, and Jessica Lange, as well as HBO’s Surveilled, an investigative journalism documentary starring Ronan Farrow.

Mac first worked with director Sam Esmail on the Golden Globe-winning series Mr. Robot, for which he received a Primetime Emmy. In 2022, they worked together again on the mini-series Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. His collaborations with show creator and director Ryan Murphy include projects such as Pose, starring Billy Porter; 9-1-1, starring Angela Bassett; 9-1-1: Lone Star, starring Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler (both co-composed with Todd Haberman); The Politician, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Platt, Ratched, starring Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Freak Show, for which Mac received an Emmy nomination, and Feud, earning him two more Emmy nominations.

Quayle’s latest project, HBO’s Surveilled, debuted at DOC NYU. The documentary offers a critical examination of the pervasive surveillance possible with modern technology. It investigates how sophisticated spyware infects smartphones to covertly collect user data, raising pressing ethical and privacy concerns. Quayle’s music highlights the fusion of technological innovation and the human-like, fragile response to these innovations approaching our privacy.

Over the past years, Mac has written music for over 40 diverse films, television shows, and documentaries. His music for the documentary Autism in Love premiered at the Tribeca Film
Festival. Mac’s music as an additional composer for Cliff Martinez can be heard in HBO’s Emmy-winning The Normal Heart, Award-winning Drive, Contagion, and Spring Breakers. As a producer, re-mixer, and keyboardist, Mac has worked on over 300 releases, 40 #1 Billboard Dance hits, and earned a Grammy nomination for producing Donna Summer’s “I Will Go with You.”

Mac has been awarded numerous Gold and Platinum records and has worked with some of the biggest names in the music business. Mac has created music for Madonna, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Depeche Mode, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, Annie Lennox, New Order, and Sting, to name a few. When asked about his career highlights, Mac responded, “I have been very fortunate to work with many talented people over the years. However, one special moment stands out for me: playing ping pong with Peter Gabriel at Real World Studios.”

Mac lives, works, and plays ping pong in the mountains near Los Angeles. 

As beloved Broadway star Lillian Hall (Jessica Lange) pours her heart, soul, and time into preparing for her next big role, she finds herself blindsided by confusion and forgetfulness. Battling against all odds to make it to opening night, while holding on to her fading memories and identity, she must navigate a tumultuous emotional journey – balancing her desire for the spotlight and the stark demands of the real world.

Listen to a cue from the upcoming Jennifer Coolidge film, Riff Raff, by composer Adam Taylor (“The Handmaid’s Tale“).  Taylor’s score can be whimsical, melancholic and sinister underscoring the complicated character interplay in the darkly comedic crime drama.  Riff Raff (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) releases digitally worldwide on Friday, February 28 2025.  Get a taste of the film score via the track, “Riff Raff,” below.

Oscar nominees Bill Murray (Lost In Translation, Ghostbusters) and Ed Harris (The Hours, The Truman Show) star alongside Emmy winner Jennifer Coolidge (“The White Lotus”, American Pie) and Pete Davidson (“Saturday Night Live”, The Suicide Squad) in this darkly comic crime thriller about how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love.  The Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate film is releasing in theaters this Friday, February 28, 2025.

Notes Taylor: “Writing the score for Riff Raff was a true joy. the collaboration with the director, Dito, on this dark comedy brought out a quirky side in the writing and instrumentation that was new and exciting to me. Riff Raff was as fun to score as it is to watch.”

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Riff Raff (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Adam Taylor

Track List

01. Riff Raff
02. Driving All Night
03. Delicate Situation
04. Trying to Sleep
05. Sharp as a Knife
06. Woman of a Certain Age
07. Getting Closer to Yarmouth
08. Good Ziti
09. The Turtle
10. Mind Your Business, College Boy
11. Ruth
12. Marina and Rocco
13. Lefty Knows Where I Live
14. Held at Gunpoint
15. Happy Thoughts
16. Take the Gun
17. Beating Like a Drum
18. What Family Is

ABOUT ADAM TAYLOR

Adam Taylor is a film score composer based in Long Beach, California known for his subdued, emotional, and minimalistic scores.  Adam began his career scoring documentary and short films before being enlisted on John Wells’ “August: Osage County.”   Since then, Adam has become a prominent and sought after composer, scoring “Before I Fall” from director Ry Russo-Young.  Adam is most notable for his frequent collaboration with director Reed Morano, scoring her directorial debut “Meadowland”, starring Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, and Elisabeth Moss. Currently, Adam is scoring the critically acclaimed award-winning series, “The Handmaid’s Tale” for Hulu/MGM.  ADAM is also known for scoring The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix/Archie Comics) Produced by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti, The Right Stuff (Disney+) produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, and Black Cake (Hulu) produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, Kapital Entertainment created by Marissa Jo Cerar.

Vincent (Harris) and his family plan to share a quiet New Year’s Eve together until his sketchy past catches up with him and the night reveals secrets no one could ever imagine. Gabrielle Union and Emmy nominee Lewis Pullman also star. The Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate film is releasing in theaters this Friday, February 28, 2025.

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.