Who should do the music for True Detective?

True Detective Season 2 is right around the corner, but who should really be doing the music for the new season of the show?

True Detective season 2 is going to be coming down the pike in the coming months, but there are still some things that are up for debate among fans. The casting of Vince Vaughn is a tired issue, but his continual failure to get box office return is not helping him become less of a target.

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But the series has a lot more that could go wrong or that it could get brilliantly right and one of those aspects is in the music of the series. T Bone Burnett was golden for the first season of the show, and that atmospheric tone needs to be retained for the season season.

The obvious choice for this is Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — who have taken David Fincher’s already dark films and made them even darker and more intense with their soundtracks. It could be Emmy-worthy material for the show if Reznor wanted to get on board and it’s something that needs to be considered.

But really, anyone that is capable of creating moody types of atmospheric music needs to be considered, and that doesn’t mean it has to be industrial music like what Reznor produces. Being that it’s set in Los Angeles and the Californian countryside, there could be a noir-ish feel to the music that gives the show it’s tone, or even a jazzy sort of country feel that juxtaposes against the city and gangster aspects of the show.

Either way, the music is going to be crucial to the series and that’s why the second season has so much more than just the writing and the acting riding on it’s success.

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