I bought a few soundtracks recently. I'm waiting for Hans Zimmer's Rain Main and Daft Punk's TRON Legacy to hit the mat but recently received the 3-CD set of Bear McCreary's score for the TV show "Human Target".
If you like the action movie scores produced by John Williams then you'll get a blast from this score. McCreary worked with a full orchestra (about 80 musicians or more); unusual for a TV show now.
Sadly, the new producer of Season 2 (who also produces Chuck) ditched McCreary in favour of "needle-drop" songs and new music by the same guy that does the Chuck soundtrack. In other words, the same kind of thing that countless shows do (like the CSIs). Poor.
McCreary recently worked on The Walking Dead and came to prominence through his superb scores for Battlestar Galactica.
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