When you ask a fan what they like about Wayward Pines, you hear words like creepy, weird, mysterious. When the showrunners were looking for a composer, they wanted to have something that kind of focused on the sort of head trauma of Matt Dillon’s character. In Charlie Clouser, member of Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 2000, who describes his style of music as a “little creepy, kind of a little off-center, not very orchestral,” they found the right guy.
