In the aforementioned AMA, a Reddit user asked Holt whether “Time” was embedded into season 2’s theme, to which the composer replied that she listened to “The Dark Side of the Moon” after creating season 2’s music, and the overlaps were not on purpose:
“I realized that Pink Floyd influence had happened but it wasn’t intentional. I hadn’t really heard that album ‘[The] Dark Side of the Moon’ before…(love it now!) but Kevin [Wright] the producer mentioned it. I think it’s because we were going retro synth/big orchestra/ big guitars… so that is the Pink Floyd’s sound world.”
While the soundscape in “Loki” might not be a deliberate nod to the band, it is interesting how Holt uses rhythmic components to establish the themes of time warps and other temporal shenanigans, which are much more pronounced in the latest season. Speaking to Rolling Stone India, Holt explained that she used variations of season 1’s “Loki Green Theme” to drill home the fact that things are now “different and darker,” especially with the presence of Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors), the catalyst for a new world that brandishes rules that defy the established laws of time and physics.
Heavy, guttural synth sounds are also used to paint the new season as an escalation of the events that defined the first, reflected in tracks such as “The Architect,” a demo that Holt created before she started working on the Disney+ series. It also features a ticking clock and sounds like a grander, more eventful version of the TVA theme from the first season, punctuated by mechanical warp sounds that reinforce the mind-bending nature of the narrative.
Both seasons of “Loki” are currently streaming on Disney+.
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