On the extra terrestrial heels of Solar Opposites Season 5 premiering on Hulu this month, Animation Magazine is tickled green to present an exclusive featurette focusing on the show’s music. The video offers a taste of the considerations and influences that went into crafting the score for S5, and is sure to inspire fans to perk up their ears to catch the emotional soundwaves between laughs.
(You can read more about the show’s fifth season in our interview with exec producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel from the August issue of Animation Magazine, available here.)
In the featurette, “Settling the Score,” series composer Chris Westlake discusses the musical detours taken for the show’s internal, ongoing story of “The Wall” — the dystopian habitat for shrunken humans hidden in junior aliens Jessie and Yumulack’s bedroom. Now that the unhappy denizens of The Wall have found their way into the Solars’ backyard, the score has taken on Western elements (including whipcracks!) to reflect the frontier spirit of their new settlement.
Westlake also touches on the orchestral themes composed for characters such as Sofia and Hedgy, the wagon-hauling hedgehog. (No spoilers!)
