“It feels like it’s arching back to earlier seasons”: What Stranger Things fans can expect from the Season 5 scoreMichael Stein, who composes the score for Netflix’s Stranger Things, has given a few hints as to what we can expect from the soundtrack of its fifth and final season.
Stein works alongside Kyle Dixon on the show, and the pair also make up half of the Texas-based instrumental band, SURVIVE. Though they’re currently sitting on enough material to make a new album, right now, their priority has been working on Stranger Things 5. According to Stein, the sounds of the final instalment will arch back to earlier seasons of the show.

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Stein and Dixon’s work on Stranger Things has come to be much admired for its nostalgic yet eerie synth work, which harks back to the 1980s, and even won them an Emmy and two Grammy nominations. Speaking to MusicTech about their work on the new season, due to land in three parts across November and December this year, Stein says, “We’re in it. Deep in the process and working every day, six to seven days a week.”
While he can’t give any details regarding the plot, he hints that musically, things will come a little full-circle: “[Sonically] it has a lot of ties to the last season. It’s kind of a continuation, but it also definitely feels like it’s arching back to earlier seasons as well.
“We’re always trying to reinvent how we approach various scenarios,” he adds. “If we’re revisiting themes, then we want to make them new. So, there’s the horror stuff, the action stuff, the cute stuff, and there’s also a lot of stuff we still have no idea about – because we just aren’t there yet.”

The first part of Stranger Things 5 lands on 26 November, only on Netflix. You can check out more from Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon’s band via the SURVIVE Bandcamp page.
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