Silva Screen, out now digitally, 6 July CD

Silva Screen follow up their 2015 soundtrack release for the first series of Channel 4’s contemporary sci-fi drama with a selection of cues from the show’s second and third series.

This time the music is by Sarah Warne, replacing original composer Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Utopia), and it’s to her credit that she has created an electric soundscape that’s perfectly in keeping with that established in the run.

For a programme about synthetic humans the score is understandably electronic, with some fine synth work. Not obviously melodic, repeat listens reveal grater cohesion between the tracks than you might at first think. Squeezing 34 tracks into the 65-minute running time. Inevitably this means that a lot of the cues are between 1 and 2 minutes, but rather than feeling short-changed you get a lot of emotion squeezed into these bursts of brooding electronica, sometimes accompanied by a keyboard or analogue instruments

Stand out cues for me are Aftermath, A New Beginning, Waltringham Wins and Uprising.  And while you don’t get the main theme (it’s on the Series 1 album) there are moments of De Veer’s themes in the co-credited Flash, Trial, Seraphim and Set You Free.

Verdict: The soundtrack to Humans has for me always been one of its USPs, eschewing a regular TV sound for something that feels digital, synthetic and urgent. Following in the original composer’s footsteps might have been daunting, but Sarah Warne has taken these foundations and carved out her own sound for the show – here’s a great showcase of the breadth and depth of her work. 8/10

Nick Joy