Andor does a lot, so properly, in a approach that it makes itself really feel not like some other piece of Star Wars whereas additionally being the Star Wars-iest factor round. Its music is only one spotlight of that, and this week the present gave us a hypnotic beat that we are able to’t get out of our heads—and now, we don’t must.

That beat, the dirty membership music that blares throughout the soundscape through the climax of this week’s episode, “Announcement,” is named “Niamos! (Morlana Club Mix),” named for the sunny seashore planet Cassian whisks himself away to within the wake of the heist on Aldhani. It’s additionally, blessedly, in at present’s launch of Volume 1 of the Andor soundtrack from Nicholas Britell, which in any other case consists of music from the primary 4 episodes of the season.

It’s all superb—Britell has carved a sound for Andor to date that feels Star Wars when it must be, however very completely different from the oeuvres of John Williams or the Star Wars streaming contemporaries like Ludwig Goransson or Natalie Holt. “Niamos!” is maybe the apex of that concept. Usually, when Star Wars provides us membership music, it’s a riff on the sleek Jizz of Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes—the identical brassy, vaguely spacey faux-jazz that we first heard again in A New Hope—as a result of that’s what we’re skilled to anticipate of each cantina within the galaxy far, far-off.

“Niamos!” sounds nothing like that. It’s a darkish, nearly oppressive repetitive beat that drills its approach inside your head, each befitting the primary second it blares into Andor’s soundscape once we arrive on the planet the observe’s named for, after which once more when it performs over the credit of “Announcement” given the dire straits we depart Cassian in at its climax. It wouldn’t be misplaced in our personal world, however nonetheless feels distanced sufficient to be part of the world of Star Wars. In a approach, it’s reflective of Andor at giant—this grounded, dirty take a look at the realities of its worldbuilding that roots a practical, human view of the Empire’s rise that looks like a mirror to our present second.

Also, it’s only a good beat.

The first quantity of Andor’s soundtrack is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer.

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