Given Furman’s personal experience at high school, having been closeted with regard to gender and sexuality, she wasn’t method-acting for a second. Also, I guess they noticed an exuberant vulnerability. I try to imagine what’s going to be on screen as a jumping-off point, but they don’t need songs that fit, they need songs of a high quality, that come from a real place. For the second series, she says, “They trusted us completely. “The soft teenage feelings that every adult knows continue long after high school ends.”įor the first series, Furman was supplied with an extensive description of the show and the episode scripts. “I decided I’d use the Sex Education project as a place to put my tenderness, my sadness and longing,” she says. I wanted to rise to the challenge.”įurman and her band recorded the new songs in between sessions for a “loud punk record,” namely the exhilarating “Twelve Nudes”, released by Bella Union in 2019. “As a fan of many a high school comedy, for example The Breakfast Club and 10 Things I Hate About You, I knew how fun the music can be, and also how emotional.
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“Making music for a TV show was a new experience for me,” she says. It all adds up to a bumper 19-track set of Furman’s trademark enthusiastic emotional catharsis. Lining up alongside older cover versions of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘ I Can Change’ and Melanie’s ‘The Good Book’ is a new rendition of ‘Devil Or Angel’, The Clovers’ doo-wop jewel from 1956.
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The Sex Education soundtrack gathers the original songs that Furman composed for the first series and the brand new second series, whilst adding tracks featured on the show that can be found on prior Furman albums such as “Perpetual Motion People” and “Transangelic Exodus”. Meanwhile, Moordale Secondary is in the throes of a Chlamydia outbreak, highlighting the need for better sex education at the school and new kids come to town who will challenge the status quo. In season 2, as a late bloomer Otis must master his newly discovered sexual urges in order to progress with his girlfriend Ola whilst also dealing with his now strained relationship with Maeve. In season 1 Otis and his friend Maeve Wiley set-up a sex clinic at school to capitalise on his intuitive talent for sex advice. Sex Education is about Otis Milburn, a socially awkward high school student who lives with his sex therapist mother, Jean.