It's these moody, synth-driven sounds that first clue us into the vice within the Brotherhood of Steel, and the same could be said for the unsettling yodel that plays whenever the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) appears. That's all the work of Ramin Djawadi, the composer behind Fallout...
Now that we've worked together for such a long time, there's this friendship and trust that starts building. They'll throw ideas at me and then they'll just let me run wild with it. That trust has given birth to an unnerving, atmospheric score - a far cry from the old-timey piano covers in Westworld...
...both soundtracks find their roots in Djawadi's ultimate North Star: spaghetti westerns like The Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. 'I remember watching [those] film[s] and then, when I turned off the movie, those themes were stuck in my head,' Djawadi says. 'So when I write my scores, I try to achieve the same thing.'
When transposed to the Wasteland of Fallout, traditional, orchestral sounds take on experimental properties. It's just one of the things that makes Amazon's latest series such a successful adaptation - and a surprising remix of the classic western...
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