The Songs and Soundtrack of Yellowjackets Season 2

This text accommodates spoilers by the newest episode of Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets has been doing deep-cut needledrops since earlier than Stranger Issues season 4 made it cool. Whereas the sequence definitely leans into the late ’90s setting of the airplane crash flashbacks for a lot of its music (because it ought to), the current day timeline retains the sequence from feeling too restricted in its scope of track decisions. Yellowjackets is likely one of the few exhibits that would pull off having songs from Papa Roach and Sharon Van Etten in the identical episode with out it being too distracting. As a substitute, this eclectic mixture of music exhibits that the music supervisor and showrunners know the way essential the precise track is to the story. 

Yellowjackets could cowl heavy issues like trauma and cannibalism, however that doesn’t imply that its soundtrack can’t be filled with bops and bangers, together with the title sequence track “No Return” by Anna Waronker and Craig Wedren. Listed below are one of the best needledrops from every episode, in addition to the opposite notable songs featured.

Episode 3 – Digestif

“Bells for Her” – Tori Amos

This episode ends with each variations of Lottie (teen model performed by Courtney Eaton, grownup performed by Simone Kessell) combating the burden of their visions. After a flock of lifeless birds fall onto the cabin, teen Lottie reassures the others that they aren’t diseased, however reasonably a present from the forest. Grownup Lottie is beginning to have visions for the primary time since their rescue and sees the beehives of her wellness retreat coated with blood. “Bells for Her” by Tori Amos performs over each scenes, its haunting melody conveying the hazard that awaits Lottie in each the previous and the current. The lyrics of the refrain “Can’t cease what’s coming. Can’t cease what’s on its approach” additional emphasizing the upcoming doom that Lottie feels.