Tim Hecker Releasing Score for Colin Farrell–Starring TV Show The North Water

Tim Hecker composed the original score for the Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell–starring series The North Water, which airs on BBC Two and AMC+. The score is getting its digital release on September 10 via Invada/Lakeshore; it’s coming to vinyl in January. Listen to Hecker’s soundtrack-opening song “Seasick” below.

“The score for The North Water was written just before and during the pandemic in 2020, mostly over arguably one of the darkest winters of some memory in Montreal,” Hecker said in a statement. “The music was an attempt to add depth and texture to a five-hour doomed arctic journey that charts a trajectory from hardened optimism into abject futility. We worked with a primary palette of synthesizers, electronics, and treated cello, in rich live spaces as well as suffocating dead ones. This version of the score is an enhanced mix of some of the material that made its way into the project.”