Various Artists: Dexter - Music From The Showtime Original Series (2LP, soundtrack, expanded edition, green "kill outfit" vinyl) [REAL GONE MUSIC]

Why you'll love it

An expanded 2LP set on green "kill outfit" vinyl, with Rolfe Kent's much-loved main title, the Cuban and Latin songs from the show, and two full sides of Daniel Licht's original score. It ends with "Blood Theme," heard over the credits of every episode, and the bonus "Die This Way."

This edition

• Limited edition green "kill outfit" vinyl
• 2LP set, expanded edition
• Daniel Licht's score selections on Sides C and D
• Bonus track "Die This Way"

About the album

Dexter ran on Showtime from 2006, with Michael C. Hall as the Miami blood-spatter analyst with a very particular hobby, and the music did a lot of the work of making him oddly likeable. Rolfe Kent's opening theme sets a breakfast routine to ukulele, bouzouki, pizzicato strings and an Afro-Cuban beat, playful and unsettling at the same time, and it is still one of the best title sequences on television.

The first two sides gather the Latin and Cuban music that gave the show its sun-baked Miami feel, from "Conoci la Paz" to "Perfidia" and "Born Free," with Hall's narration drifting in on a few tracks. The second LP turns to Daniel Licht's score: warm Latin rhythms against cold electronics, harp, piano and bowed strings, building to the piano-and-bassoon "Blood Theme." Lovely music, provided you don't think too hard about what it is accompanying.

Tracklist

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Out July 3, 2026 on Real Gone Music (cat# LP-RGM-2149C), an expanded reissue of the 2007 soundtrack.