The Newton Brothers Release New Score for 'X-Men '97 Season Two'

On Hollywood Records, the original soundtrack to "X-Men '97" Season 2 - scored by The Newton Brothers - has just been released. The soundtrack to this acclaimed Disney+ series can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, and other digital platforms.

The Newton Brothers’ score for "X-Men ’97" Season 2 begins where its first season left off: in the aftermath. Rather than simply reviving the sounds and themes that defined the series’ breakout first chapter, the composers turn the sense of loss that hangs over this season into the soundtrack’s central musical idea.

Familiar motifs return, but changed - hopeful themes now carry the weight of what the characters have endured, while new characters arrive with musical identities of their own. Vintage and modern synthesizers, drum machines, guitars, choir, orchestra, percussion, and solo voices collide throughout the score, giving the music a tactile, widescreen quality that moves easily between melancholy and menace.

Here's what the Newton Brothers have to say about their latest "X-Men" score:

“When Season 1 ended, it left audiences with a genuine sense of loss, and that emotional truth became the foundation for Season 2's score. Rather than rushing past that grief, the music lives in it, with themes that once represented hope now carrying new weight and familiar motifs returning transformed by what the characters have endured. Drawing on the same palette of vintage and modern synths, drum machines, solo voices, guitars, choir, orchestra, and percussion, we pushed each element further, allowing the sound of Season 1 to evolve into something new. As new faces enter the story, they bring fresh themes and musical voices that expand the show's sonic language while remaining connected to its history. We wanted the score to honor the past while racing toward the future, capable of being dark, romantic, heartbreaking, terrifying, and hopeful, sometimes all at once.”

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Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart, the duo known as The Newton Brothers, have built a distinctive place in contemporary film and television scoring by treating orchestration and electronics as complementary languages. Their scores move between synths, orchestral textures, choir, percussion, and processed sound to create music that is atmospheric as much as it is dramatic.

Their latest work includes Marvel’s "X-Men ’97" Season 2, where they expand the musical world established in the series’ first season, and Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming "Carrie," which reunites them with longtime collaborator Mike Flanagan. Recent credits include "Daredevil: Born Again" Season 2, whose score combines choir, organ, synths, and orchestration, and "The Life of Chuck," continuing their long-running collaboration with Flanagan.

Across their work, The Newton Brothers have developed a sound that can be simultaneously intimate and expansive, using familiar scoring tools alongside electronic textures to heighten atmosphere, character, and emotion.