Killing Eve, Season One & Two (Original Series Soundtrack)

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DH: After reading the first episode, we knew that Killing Eve required something that was completely unique. It had to be as original as the writing. I also knew it had to have a very strong female sound, which ultimately led to what we ended up creating. With that template, the possibilities were endless due to the amount of choice Catherine and I had in our record collections. Few other shows would juxtapose Fire by “post-punk singing nun” Sister Irene O’Connor with the ghostly Train To Satanville, a 1961 rarity by Gin Gillette, who left a minimal Google trail. Playlist – Eve to Villanelle

cine-styled global movements in mind. Unerringly on-point selections include ‘Roller Girl’, from the 1967 film Anna,The template for the Killing Eve soundworld was provided by Holmes’ Los Angeles project Unloved, featuring singer-songwriter Jade Vincent and her partner, composer-keyboardist Keefus Ciancia. Bandage boy may regret lending Villannelle his pyjamas (BBC America) While sitting by the fire, Villanelle kisses the other woman; Konstantin drinks and dances in his room. Ciancia ( True Detective) and one-off singer Jade Vincent. Shared leanings towards “music inspired by Italian film music, French film music and French Holmes and Grieves have compiled four special musical mixes for Obsessed With… Killing Eve, a new BBC Sounds app podcast accompanying season two. Eve leaves Helen’s house; May talks with her father in the tent, Villanelle hears them and kills them both with the nail from the tent.

Eve puts the groceries on the kitchen table and starts cutting the vegetables. She cuts her finger with the knife. Holmes told the BBC: "They approached me about doing the music, and they were very much focusing on all these different countries. And so, just having an extensive I suppose knowledge of music from France and Italy and Russia... and we were taking all these influences.

Unloved project

The opening of season two finds Villanelle at her lowest point. Stumbling out of her Parisian apartment and bleeding from a stab wound, her trademark ineffable cool is upended by her need for medical attention. The day is grim, the streets are empty, and Eve has just betrayed Villanelle, stabbing her in the height of romance in the season one finale. As Villanelle winds through the streets, a carnivalesque French song in the style of The Beatles’ “For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite” adds to the drama. “La Plus Belle Chanson” by Jacqueline Taieb opens with a chromatically descending bass line and dizzying psychedelic organ. The lyrics (translated to English) mimic the unfolding scene: READ MORE: When is Eve Killing Eve season 2 released, who joins Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in the cast and what can we expect? They include a special playlist of songs Villanelle might send to Eve to mess with her psyche and vice-versa.