Stranger Things 2 Soundtrack – Good Working Music
For the horror soundtrack, Stranger Things 2 seems very … productive. Rhythmic synthesizers evoke not so much Lovecraft’s monster as a gently churning supercomputer. This will make a great soundtrack to your workday. Signal to Spotify and enter your area.
The 71-minute album straddles between hilarious and brooding tracks, synth-based and lyric-free. You might want to skip tracks 10, 15, and 23, which get too dangerous – unless you want to scare yourself into meeting the deadline.
Personally, I find 80s pop hits very distracting, but if, as my editor-in-chief, you find them motivating, you can play all the 80s songs featured in the new season:
My other favorite cinematic workday soundtracks are Wild Animals of the South , Povakkatsi by Philip Glass, and Mark Mathersboe’s work on any Wes Anderson film. What are yours?