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How Music Became the Heartbeat of ‘Industry’

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By Cheyenne Roundtree This story contains spoilers for the Industry Season Four finale. A Spotify save-worthy soundtrack, epic needle drops, and a euphoric shimmery score set Industry apart when it comes to music on television. The sound of HBO’s buzziest show — which was recently greenlit for a fifth and final season — is as live-wire as the series itself, and Season Four, which concluded tonight, pulled from a more eclectic mix than ever. Its eight episodes featured Eighties anthems like Alphaville’s “Forever Young,” New Order’s “True Faith” and “Fine Time,” and an Italian disco-style remix of David Bowie’s “Heroes”; dance club classics in Daft Punk’s “Veridis Quo” and “All On You (Perfume)” by Paris Angels; plus more current songs from Turnstile. Finance bros turned series co-creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay lean into the madness of their international banking-set soap with the musical choices, even if some of their most provocative ideas don’t make the final cut.…

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