Those Who Wish Me Dead (soundtrack)
Those Who Wish Me Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2021 film of the same name directed by Taylor Sheridan. Featuring musical score composed by Brian Tyler, the soundtrack was released by WaterTower Music on May 7, 2021.

Development 

Tyler has previously worked with Sheridan on the Paramount Network television series Yellowstone. Sheridan claimed that "Brian has done many big films—really massive set-piece movies [...] With this film, we wanted the score, the sound design, and the sounds of fire to blend together and leave the audience unsure whether it was being guided by a designed sound, by the sounds of the forest or by the score." Tyler discussed on how the two main characters are lost souls searching for deliverance, where "Hannah is a prisoner of her own guilt and memory, while Connor is battling a tragic loss. But this is also a story of human versus nature, as well as the evils of mankind."

In order to channel an array of thematic tones, Tyler recorded the sounds of burning cello set ablaze with a lighter fluid and played the strings until it burned to a point where it made no sound. The recording of the burning cello recurs as a sonic presence throughout the entire score. He further recorded the orchestral sections in different meters, where he would set the bar of woodwinds to 7/8 and the strings to 4/4 but on the same piece, so that it had an asymmetrical rhythmic tempo to it.

Tyler further performed piano solos where the reverb would be out of tune or purposefully detuned from its original sound reminiscent of how the "memories are not actually correct versions of what happened". The piano theme is a melancholic, emotional and heartfelt melody for the two main characters, where instead of having that piano tune, the sustain would be out of tune with itself, with the audience thinking that "this is ugly".

Track listing

Reception 
Music critic Jonathan Broxton wrote "Those Who Wish Me Dead is a decent score. The intellectual and conceptual ideas behind the score – the interrelated themes and the way Tyler tried to capture the nature of fire itself – are impressive and clearly show him to be a composer very much in tune with his film and what his director needs. The end result, however, doesn’t really bear fruit in the same way. The main theme is good, and the action is exciting, but a little too much of it gets lost in the same sort of abstract groaning and electronic sound design that has infected too many of Hans Zimmer’s prominent action and sci-fi works of late, to the extent that it doesn’t really stand out from the crowd in the way that many of Tyler’s earlier scores did." Zanobard Reviews gave 7/10 to the score, summarizing "Brian Tyler’s score for Those Who Wish Me Dead is a surprisingly quiet, pensive and richly atmospheric album for the most part, though it doesn’t shy away from the composer’s well-known epic orchestral talents where they’re called upon." David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter complimented it as "muscular orchestral". Sandy Schaefer of Comic Book Resources wrote "Brian Tyler, working again with Sheridan after their collaboration on Yellowstone, delivers a propulsive, ominous score that further underscores the sense of urgency in Those Who Wish Me Dead."

Credits 
Credits adapted from CD liner notes:

 Composer – Brian Tyler
 Producer – Brian Tyler, Joe Lisanti
 Recording – Greg Hayes, Tim Lauber
 Arrangements – Gregory Reveret, John Carey, Josh Zimmerman, Max Lombardo, Nathan Alexander, Sarah Trevino
 Mixing – Brian Tyler, Frank Wolf, Larry Mah
 Music editor – Kyle Clausen
 Supervising music editor – Joe Lisanti
 Technician – Stacey Robinson
 Score co-ordinator – Stephanie Bryant
 Soundtrack co-ordinator – Jen O'Malley
 Music preparation – Eric Stonerook Music
 Art direction – Sandeep Sriram
 Executive in charge of music (New Line Cinema) – Erin Scully
 Executive in charge of music (WaterTower Music) – Jason Linn
 Music business affairs – Ari Taitz
 Orchestra
 Orchestra – Brian Tyler, The Hollywood Studio Symphony
 Orchestration – Brad Warnaar, Dana Niu, Robert Elhai
 Conductor – Brian Tyler
 Contractor – Peter Rotter
 Concertmaster – Bruce Dukov
 Stage manager – Damon Tedesco, Hoss Yekband
 Stage engineer – Erin Rettig
 Instruments
 Bass – Geoffrey Osika, Michael Valerio, Stephen Dress, Nico Abondolo
 Cello – Armen Ksajikian, Dennis Karmazyn, Eric Byers, Jacob Braun, Paula Hochhalter, Timothy Loo, Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Steve Erdody
 Clarinet – Stuart Clark
 Flute – Heather Clark, Julie Burkert, Sara Andon
 French Horn – Dylan Hart, Katelyn Faraudo, Laura Brenes, Steven Becknell, Teag Reaves, David Everson
 Trombone – Craig Gosnell, Phillip Keen, Steven Holtman, Alex Iles
 Viola – Alma Fernandez, Andrew Duckles, David Walther, Zach Dellinger, Jonathan Moerschel, Shawn Mann, Victor De Almeida, Robert Brophy
 Violin – Andrew Bulbrook, Benjamin Jacobson, Charlie Bisharat, Eun-Mee Ahn, Helen Nightengale, Josefina Vergara, Lorand Lokuszta, Luanne Homzy, Mark Robertson, Maya Magub, Molly Goldbaum, Natalie Leggett, Phillip Levy, Sara Parkins, Songa Lee, Stephanie Matthews, Tamara Hatwan, Tereza Stanislav, Alyssa Park

References 

2021 soundtrack albums
WaterTower Music soundtracks
Brian Tyler soundtracks