Listen: Two Tracks from Amazon's "The Underground Railroad" Score

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While Barry Jenkins' new 10-episode Amazon series The Underground Railroad is an impacting tale, one of it's most noted aspects is the score composed by Nicholas Britell, who previously worked with Jenkins on both of his last two feature-length directorial efforts, Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk. And because Britell, a feature-film composer, put the same kind of ambition he would into a film score, the result was a multi-volume soundtrack that Lakeshore Records has been releasing. Following the release of The Underground Railroad Vol. 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 will be available digitally on May 28th. Britell spoke on the soundtrack today and the 20-month journey he took in composing it:

“The scale of The Underground Railroad is immense. Over 20 months, Barry and I worked to craft a set of musical landscapes to weave into Cora’s epic story. Volumes 2 and 3, combined with the previously released Volume 1, reflect the full scope of our musical journey together for the show.”

The two volumes' track lists and their respective cover arts are present below with each volume having released an exclusive preview track:

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Track List Volume 2

1. The Freedom Trail

2. Ethel / No Choice

3. Come Down Here (feat. David Hughey)

4. Louisa

5. Petrified

6. House of Baal

7. Cicada Spirit (Foundation Track)

8. It Must Be Searched

9. The Great Spirit

10. Portrait of Cora Randall (Foundation Track)

11. Asgardsreien

12. Found Him

13. TCA (Early Sketch)

14. Searching in B Minor (Foundation Track)

15. Exodus

16. Lovey

17. Somewhere Up There

18. I’m Free

19. Throw Me Anywhere, Lord (feat. Joe Solomon) [Early Sketch]

20. That’a Girl

21. Fire for the Kindling

22. In Aeternum

23. The Gospel of Jasper

24. Manifest

25. Deliverance

26. Emma Jane

The exclusive preview track for this volume is Track 6, titled "House of Baal":

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Track List Volume 3

1. Fanny Briggs (feat. Julia Bullock)

2. Fireflies

3. Cut of Yo’ Jib

4. The Pursuit of Happiness

5. Fellowship

6. Apollonian Embers

7. Valentine Trio No. 2

8. Welcome to Your Future

9. A Man About A Horse

10. Cora

11. Ain’t Nothing in this World Black Folk Can’t Do

12. Descending Piece

13. Next

14. As Long As You Need

15. Royal Gone

16. Shame

17. I Am (Reprise)

18. Three Banjos

19. Last Rites

20. Telegram

21. Revelations

22. Partum

23. Ghost Tunnel

24. Legacy

25. The Journey (Reprise)

26. Caesar’s Theme (feat. David Hughey) [Foundation Track]

The exclusive preview track for this volume is Track 25, titled "The Journey (Reprise)":

Stay tuned!