“We write what we feel is beautiful and important,” Rennie says. Always.”Īfter 20 years as a band, the Handsome Family hasn’t changed their ethos as a band while the attention from True Detective has played an important role in exposure, the art of their music isn’t driven solely by selling albums. Chances are if can be yourself and it's good it'll come thru and be recognized.” Brett acknowledges that the key to all good music starts at at the beginning: “Write the best songs you can. sync companies have a limited roster and if they already have the type of music or sound that you are doing they won't sign because they already have it. “There is a glut of a million bands and singers doing the same exact thing. It's was an intense four months, But I'm happy for having done it.”īands and musicians who want to get their song featured on a television show should create a distinct sound that can set them apart, according to Iha.
TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 1 THEME SONG TV
Whenever I watched a new scene I grabbed a guitar or keyboard and just immediately started recording, so there's inspiration at the first viewing but with TV there's also no time to process. “It's certainly made me faster,” Iha says, “there was a lot of music per episode on Deadbeat and not a lot of time to labor over anything. Writing music for a show also influenced Iha’s own creative process, due to the intense time constraints inherent to an episode’s production cycle. "And we're happy to play it," Brett says. “We are selling out more shows and playing to larger audiences,” Rennie continues. “ more lucrative than record sales these days, sure, but touring is still the main way we make our money,” Brett says. Hitting the road the old fashioned way still is the most important source of income for the band’s Like Handsome Family. I love playing shows and touring but as I get older and I've toured less, it's been nice to do music in the studio and come home and enjoy family life so I'm grateful for that.” “There's just a lot more emphasis and competition on it today. “Live music is a big part of a band's life, it was before the internet and it still is now,” Iha says. It's important as an artist and composer to get your name out there and hopefully people will discover other things I've done like my solo career.”īut for Iha the regularity of working on a production was a welcome alternative to the touring cycle. “Most people will always know me from the Smashing Pumpkins but it's important to work on different things, music and otherwise to put yourself out there. Working on Deadbeat, Iha says, was also a way to extend his brand that was beyond his work in the 1990s. “I have a solo project which is on a grass roots level, I play guitar in A Perfect Circle which is a big rock band, I co-write songs with other bands and writers, and I score music.
“Like a lot of people in the music business it helps to diversify,” Iha says. Iha says composing has offered another avenue to extend his craft. The demand for more video content has also increased the opportunities for musicians to create new works as well. In the new music business, the relationship between television, film, and online content has become more enmeshed.
While some musicians are overshadowed by their theme songs - remember The Rembrandts song for Friends- others have leveraged the exposure into an additional revenue opportunity that has become a welcome financial stream in the era of declining album sales.įor the dark roots duo the Handsome Family, their cinematic murder-ballad “Far From Any Road” was selected to open the cult Lousiana crime drama True Detective, pairing their underbelly Americana sound with the haunting imagery of the title sequence created by production houses Antibody and Elastic. Theme songs also become an aural logo for a show, providing an almost Pavlovian response for audiences, for whom the song and the show are inextricably linked in a kind of Moebius strip of memory: Listening to the song evokes images of the show, and images from the show evoke the sound of the song. It creates a moment of separation that buffers the tone of fast paced commercials for Swiffers or Sizzler from the story, barricading commerce from the art of storytelling. A television theme song isn’t just a backdrop for opening credits it’s a prelude to a story, the first impression that sets the tone for what’s to follow.
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