Available today, Walt Disney Records releases the Star Wars Outlaws Original Video Game Soundtrack, featuring a score by composer Wilbert Roget, II, available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. Songs from the Underworld Original Music from Star Wars Outlaws with music by Cody Matthew Johnson is highlighted in-game and available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
Both albums are the audio companions to Star Wars Outlaws, a galaxy-spanning open-world game from Ubisoft, developed by Massive Entertainment in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games.
Star Wars Outlaws is the first-ever open-world Star Wars game, set between the events of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. This immersive, single-player game features Kay Vess, a scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life, along with her companion Nix. Players will fight, steal, and outwit their way through the galaxy's crime syndicates and join the galaxy's most wanted.
Commenting on the score, composer Roget said, "It has been an incredible privilege to contribute to the Star Wars franchise through the years, and I'm honored to finally present the score to Star Wars Outlaws! This has been a dream-come-true collaboration with co-composers Jon Everist and Kazuma Jinnouchi, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Nashville Scoring Orchestra, brilliant soloist musicians from around the world, and our world-class recording, production, and orchestration teams. To score this galaxy-spanning adventure, we blended the classic orchestral sound of John Williams' original Star Wars trilogy with world instruments, designed sounds, and modern production. And to support the open-world game design, we also developed a fully interactive music system, dynamically rearranging the score in realtime based on gameplay. My sincerest thanks to the teams at Massive, Ubisoft, Disney and Lucasfilm Games for bringing me on this journey - and I hope you enjoy this new adventure!"
Commenting on the songs, composer and music producer Johnson said, "The songs from the underworld are such an integral part of the world-building and perceived culture of Star Wars Outlaws. With the ambition of not just one but many massive worlds to explore came the challenge of building an authentic in-world culture of which music is the backbeat."
Johnson continues, "These songs needed to not only have originality but had to be the beating heart of each planet's criminal underworld. Creatively they were written as songs the criminals would not only listen to but songs, they might themselves compose and perform, hence Songs from the Underworld."