Oliver Coates’ beautifully haunting and typically inventive score to Mary & George, the SKY TV historical psychodrama starring Academy Award® winner Julianne Moore (Still Alice) and Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella, Purple Hearts) is out now digitally via Invada Records.

The new score – released to coincide with the launch of the series - sees cellist, composer and electronic music producer, Oliver Coates, follow an incredible run of soundtracks and scores that include Aftersun, Foe and Steve McQueen's Occupied City.

Mary & George is inspired by the unbelievable true story of Mary Villiers, who moulded her beautiful and charismatic son, George, to seduce King James VI of Scotland and I of England and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become the richest, most titled and in?uential players the English court had ever seen, and the King’s most trusted advisors. And with England’s place on the world stage under threat from a Spanish invasion and rioters taking to the streets to denounce the King, the stakes could not have been higher. Prepared to stop at nothing and armed with her ruthless political steel, Mary married her way up the ranks, bribed politicians, colluded with criminals and clawed her way into the heart of the Establishment, making it her own.

Oliver Coates’ work includes the scores for 2022 Cannes selections The Stranger (Official Selection), Aftersun (Critics Week), Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, and Significant Other. Coates moves continuously between the roles of composer, performer, experimental musician and record producer.

He releases music on RVNG Intl (most recently skins n slime, 2020 and its epilogue Sidestepped) exploring improvisation, ambient music, and intimate melodic cello with distortion and tape modulation and he performed a headline set at the 2019 Manchester International Festival curated by David Lynch.

Coates has collaborated with Mica Levi, Arca, Dean Blunt, Jonny Greenwood and Malibu on live and recorded projects, including the lauded LP Remain Calm (Slip) with Levi, and he has curated two editions of DEEP8MINIMALISM at Southbank Centre in London, featuring the music of Éliane Radigue, Liz Harris, Pauline Oliveros, Hanne Darboven, Morton Feldman, Daphne Oram and Malibu.