Soundtrack Review: Fringe Season 3 (2012)

Fringe Season 3 Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the television score Fringe Season 3 by Chris Tilton.

“Fringe Season 3 is a good score, but ultamitely a big disappointment for me.”

I don’t know about you, but Fringe is getting better with every season and I think season 3 was the darkest and most enjoyable so far. The music has also been a great happiness of mine and I was highly anticipating this. Chris Tilton is all alone this time and no help from his pals Michael Giacchino and Chad Seiter. I wouldn’t be worried… would you?

Track List

1. The Escape From Liberty Island	60
2. Slow Motion Sickness	80
3. Newton’s Last Mission	60
4. May the Best World Win	80
5. Sneaking Sense of Liberty	80
6. Hot Brief Injection	60
7. Capturing the Dunhams	80
8. Take It to the Tank	80
9. The Original Dunham	80
10. I Thought She Was You	60
11. My So-Called Strife	80
12. Olivia	60
13. The Firefly	80
14. Best Chase Scenario	100
15. The Observers	60
16. Reciprocity	60
17. The Persistence of Walternate’s Vision	80
18. Imagination Building	80
19. The House of Birth	80
20. Oppenheimer Maneuvers	60
21. Wwpd	80
22. Singe and Surge	80
23. Peter	80
24. Apocalypse in Judgement	60
25. As the Crowbar Flies	60
26. Wake Up and Smell the Catastrophe	80
27. The Way the World Crumbles	80
28. Walter Skelter	60
29. A Universe for a Universe	80
30. Funeral Pyre Straits	80
31. The Mourning After	60
32. We Are a Strange Loop	80
33. The Vanishing Bishop	80
34. Fringe Division	80

So far, Fringe Season 1 by Chris Tilton, Chad Seiter and Michael Giacchino ranks for me amongst the best television scores ever made and Fringe Season 2 isn’t that far behind. Naturally Fringe Season 3 is another highly expected score for me this year. It’s all Chris Tilton this time and personally I love season 3 of Fringe on television. Shame that the ratings aren’t the best because it’s really awesome TV. The score itself is filled to the brim with 76 minutes of music. Just a shame that a lot of it is wasted.

I’m not sure why, but season 3 sounds like a boring trip to the museum compared to the previous seasons which were more like thrill-seeking adventure rides. Everything has been toned down and it suffers because of it and I suffer a lot because of it. It contains many good cues, but only one really good cue called ‘Best Case Scenario’ which has some of the power and energy I felt in love with on the previous albums.

Have Spotify? Listen to the score:

Conclusion

Fringe Season 3 is a good score, but ultimately a big disappointment for me. There’s just not much to be excited about here and I honestly feel like someone robbed me of 76 minutes of potentially great music.

Geek Score: 73.5

Listen to the Fringe Season 3 soundtrack by Chris Tilton:

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