Sony Music Masterworks today releases Outlander: Season 7 (Highlights from the Original Television Soundtrack) with music by Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning series composer Bear McCreary. Available everywhere now, the EP also features McCreary's arrangement of the series theme song "The Skye Boat Song" performed by the late Sinéad O'Connor, and a Scottish traditional song performed by Griogair Labhruidh. The EP serves as an introduction to the larger soundscape envisioned by McCreary for the seventh season of the critically acclaimed Starz series from Sony Pictures Television, the first half of which is available now on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms.
Of the release, composer Bear McCreary says, "Scoring Outlander's seventh season allowed me to continue to weave the threads that create the tapestry of this dynamic, eclectic score. The sounds of Americana were brought to the fore as Claire and Jamie at last collide with the events of the American Revolution. Most importantly, Season 7 also allowed me to return to the series' roots in Celtic folk music. I was thrilled by the opportunity to enlist the legendary singer Sinéad O'Connor, who I thought could provide a unique sense of power and wisdom to our latest rendition of the series' iconic title theme, 'The Skye Boat Song.' It was my privilege to collaborate with her on what I understand was her final recording, a hauntingly beautiful vocal performance. Sinéad was the warrior poet I expected her to be. I am gutted by her loss."