Something that stood out to me as pretty cool was the kind of lounge-jazz music that played while Syril and Dedra were getting ready for the dinner with Eedy.

I’d become fascinated with the 70s/80s sci-fi cartoon/anime aesthetic in the past few years, and particularly how much its music could often be a mix of synths and at the time a contemporaneous disco/jazz trend. Droids certainly fell into this, despite having John Williams and Star Wars as source.

SO. Andor is taking the 70s retrofuturism pretty seriously, and that Syril/Dedra sequence helped me realize that I would actually love a more jazz-y OST.

Similar to that auralnauts video but leaning further into Jun Fukamachi, Shigeo Sekito, Jeff Tyzik, or even a Haircuts For Men vibe - rather than just Blade Runner or Blake’s Seven. Like, that could genuinely work for this show IMO

I’d been collecting tracks like that for this other animated WIP Star Wars project I’ve been whittling away at, but I would love to try it for Andor too. Evoking this more could go hard, and fit right in with the ways in which the show is already a radical but retro take on Star Wars.

Could even throwback to the style of titlecards in Droids and Ewoks

and of course

Brandon Roberts’ score (the parts of it that are his and not just re-used Britell) is broadly leaning more into classic Star Wars more, but that one musical moment was bold enough to get me thinking. We already talk a lot about the ways Andor feels like pre-Disney Legends, but it also feels pre-Legends, pre-Zahn. I would love to put it more in that space.