Hear First New Song from STRANGER THINGS Season 2 ‘Walkin’ In Hawkins’

Who was the best character in Stranger Things first season? Eleven? Chief Hooper? Mike? Dustin? Barb? That’s a pretty good list of candidates, but there’s one glaring omission: the show’s soundtrack. That’s because the series’ haunting, ’80s synth-inspired music was as powerful a presence in the series as any Demogorgon, which is why the duo responsible for it, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, is returning for season two. And if the first track for the new season is any indication, the music might end up being the best character on the show yet again.

We first heard this opening track from Dixon and Stein for the new season, “Walkin’ in Hawkins,” at Pitchfork. As the song’s title suggests, this feels like the type of number that would be playing during a beautiful, peaceful afternoon in the small town of Hawkins. But just like with their already iconic theme song for Stranger Things, the use of synthesizers, with alien-sounding buzzing and humming, gives it an underlying creepiness, which is appropriate considering what is really happening there.

You know something is wrong in Hawkins when that’s maybe the most positive sounding song from the series yet. Although looking through the newly announced 34 song soundtrack (that we saw at Entertainment Weekly), there will probably be a few other pleasant sounding tracks among all of the terrifying ones. You can see the entire list below.

In the meantime, while we wait for Stranger Things 2 to hit Netflix on October 27, we’re going to enjoy listening to this great track over and over. It’s like the calm before the storm in audible form.

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Stranger Things 2 tracklist:

01 Walkin’ in Hawkins

02 Home

03 Eulogy

04 On the Bus

05 Presumptuous

06 Eight Fifteen

07 The First Lie

08 Scars

09 I Can Save Them

10 Descent Into the Rift

11 Chicago

12 Looking for a Way Out

13 Birth / Rescue

14 In the Woods

15 Digging

16 Symptoms

17 Eggo in the Snow

18 Soldiers

19 Choices

20 Never Tell

21 She Wants Me to Find Her

22 Shouldn’t Have Lied

23 It’s a Trap

24 Crib

25 The Return

26 Escape

27 We Go Out Tonight

28 Connect the Dots

29 The Hub

30 On Edge

31 What Else Did You See?

32 Run

33 Levitation

34 To Be Continued

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