Denis Villenueve’s masterful Blade Runner 2049 races into theaters this weekend and the film’s accompanying soundtrack, composed by legendary film score maestro Hans Zimmer, is now streaming in full.
The score was composed in tandem by Zimmer and his longtime collaborator Benjamin Wallfisch. The duo was brought in somewhat later in the production process, after the score’s initial composer, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, ceased involvement due to creative differences.
Villeneuve explained his decision to replace Jóhannsson with Zimmer in an interview with Al Arabiya. “The thing I will say is that making movies is a laboratory,” he explained. “The movie needed something different, and I needed to go back to something closer to [the original film’s composer] Vangelis. Jóhann and I decided that I will need to go in another direction — that’s what I will say.”
The decision seemingly paid off, as Clint Worthington notes in his review of the film: “[Zimmer and Wallfisch] lean heavily on Vangelis’ original 1982 score for inspiration, but 2049 is refreshingly light on incidental music, mostly allowing the booming, immersive sound design to take center stage.”
As Editor-in-Chief Michael Roffman writes in his glowing A- review, the score is “a total evolution of what Vangelis set in motion way, way back in 1982. It’s louder, it’s gloomier, it’s heavier, and it’s much more expansive, all qualities one might tag with Villeneuve’s breathtaking sequel.”
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2049
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:37
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Sapper's Tree
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
1:36
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Flight To Lapd
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
1:47
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Summer Wind
by Frank Sinatra
2:54
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Rain
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
2:26
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Wallace
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
5:23
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Memory
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
2:32
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Mesa
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:10
9
Orphanage
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
1:13
10
Furnace
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:41
11
Someone Lived This
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:13
12
Joi
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:51
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Pilot
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
2:17
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Suspicious Minds
by Elvis Presley
4:22
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Can't Help Falling in Love
by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires
3:02
16
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
by Frank Sinatra
4:24
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Hijack
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
5:32
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That's Why We Believe
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:36
19
Her Eyes Were Green
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
6:17
20
Sea Wall
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
9:53
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All the Best Memories Are Hers
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
3:22
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Tears in the Rain
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
2:10
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Blade Runner
by Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
10:05
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Almost Human (from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Blade Runner 2049)
by Lauren Daigle
