EXCLUSIVE: Listen To A Cue By John Frizzell From Netflix’s New ‘Waterfront’ Series!

June 19, 2025

Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff

We are thrilled to give you a taste of John Frizzell’s score to the forthcoming release, The Waterfront—Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, available digitally on Friday, June 20, 2025!  Featuring original music by John Frizzell (Tell Me A Story), The Waterfront is his fourth score for creator Kevin Williamson.  Have a listen below and check out more album details.

Frizzell’s hauntingly atmospheric score blends electronics with distinctively rootsy Americana instruments that strikingly augments the dramatic series. Notes Frizzell: “I’m thrilled to be part of ‘The Waterfront’ and to collaborate with Kevin Williamson again!  This score was a great opportunity for me to express my love of Americana music and to weave mandolin and slide guitar into a high stakes dramatic story.”

The Waterfront stars Holt McCallany, Maria Bello, Melissa Benoist and Jake Weary. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.  The Waterfront is now streaming on Netflix.

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Track List
01. Dead Bodies
02. Young Bree
03. Ride to Town
04. Keep Going
05. The Incident At Sea
06. Harlan Meets Grady
07. Harlan and Shawn
08. Bree on the Pier
09. The Truth About Granddad
10. Harlan Manipulates Drew
11. Bree at the Swim Meet
12. Almost OK
13. Sanchez Questions Cane
14. Sharks
15. You Owe Me
16. Before The Sun Comes Up
17. Now I’m in Charge
18. Cane Can’t Handle It
19. Been Sober Before
20. Belle and Harlan
21. You Can Count on Me
22. Childhood Memories
23. An Attempt Was Made
24. Hear me on This
25. Bree Flashback
26. Harlan Confronts Grady
27. Bree Fights Back
28. Standoff with Grady
29. The Waterfront End Credits

ABOUT JOHN FRIZZEL
HMMA Award-winning composer John Frizzell, born in New York City, began his music career early, singing in the chorus of the Paris Opera Company and the Metropolitan Opera Company. As a teenager, he played guitar in rock bands before shifting his focus to jazz – a passion that led him to pursue a formal musical education at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and Manhattan School of Music. During his college years, Frizzell met his first mentor, guitar legend Joe Pass, who inspired him to become a composer.

Early in his career, Frizzell collaborated with renowned composers as an orchestrator and co-composer. He initially worked with the iconic Academy Award Winner® Ryuichi Sakamoto on the Oliver Stone mini-series “Wild Palms,” and then with Academy Award® nominee James Newton Howard on “Dante’s Peak.” Following these collaborations, his independent composing career flourished, leading to scores for notable films with leading filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Alien Resurrection”), Joel Silver (“Thir13en Ghosts” and “Ghost Ship”), Danny Cannon (“I Still Know What You Did Last Summer”), and Mark Rydell (“James Dean” and “Crime of the Century”).

A pivotal moment in Frizzell’s career came when he submitted music to Mike Judge on a cassette that he humorously edited to include disparaging commentary from Beavis and Butt-head, who insisted the music ‘sucked.’ This tongue-in-cheek approach led to Frizzell becoming the composer for “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.” He continued to work with Judge on projects such as “Office Space,” “King of the Hill,” “Tales from the Tour Bus,” and the 2022 film “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe,” for which Frizzell won the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Score for a Streamed Animated Film. Frizzell is also set to score the 2025 reboot of “King of the Hill” and an untitled 2025 film from Judge.

Frizzell has had a longstanding collaboration with legendary creator Kevin Williamson since scoring his 1999 film “Teaching Mrs. Tingle.” This partnership also includes projects like “The Following” and “Tell Me A Story,” and continues with the 2025 Netflix Drama series ‘The Waterfront.”

Inspired by true events, The Waterfront dives into the flawed Buckley family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat.

Watch the series trailer: