Heated Rivalry (Original Series Soundtrack) (2026)
Singles from Heated Rivalry (Original Series Soundtrack)
"Rivalry" Released: January 9, 2026
"It's You" Released: January 9, 2026
Heated Rivalry (Original Series Soundtrack) is the score composed by the Canadian musician Peter Peter to the sports romance television series Heated Rivalry. The score was released through Milan Records on January 16, 2026. It marked Peter Peter's scoring debut.[1]
Heated Rivalry marked Peter Peter's first major original score for a television series. He was chosen by the series creator Jacob Tierney after Tierney listened to his 2024 album Éther.[2] Production hired Peter Peter early in the series' development; he was introduced to Tierney during pre-production and given access to early script drafts, enabling him to begin conceptual work before any footage was shot. He initially composed and produced multiple demo pieces solely from the script material; however, after viewing the first visual footage he determined that most of these early ideas did not suit the tone of the finished scenes and chose to discard them. He retained only two thematic ideas and a limited set of synthesizer sounds from that phase.
Once the final edited footage (picture lock) was available, Peter Peter began composing directly to picture. His process involved first determining the precise tempo required for each scene using Logic Pro as his primary digital audio workstation, which he synchronized with an external MIDI sequencer, drum machines, and various analog and digital synthesizers. Rather than relying on pre-programmed MIDI sequences, he improvised with his equipment while watching the visuals, recording takes when the musical ideas matched the scene's emotional and rhythmic cues. After receiving the picture-locked video files for each episode, he had approximately ten days per episode to deliver fully completed compositions and final productions, a turnaround he described as unusually short compared with his previous work.[3]
Composition
Peter Peter composed the series' score, which critics described as "sexy, connected and ambient", as well as "buzzy" and synth-driven, recalling his signature electronic soundscapes.[2] The album opens with "Rivalry", the series' theme song. Rebecca Alter of Vulture characterized the instrumental techno track as "Challengers-esque".[4]
"Melt", the second track, accompanies a locker-room scene in which the protagonists shower together in the episode "Rookies". The piece is built around ambient drone textures and features "icy sounding" synthesizers that build to a crescendo.[5]
"It's You", the album's sole track with lyrics,[6] was described as "slow and dreamy". Its lyrics "evoke Jane and Lily's distinctively monosyllabic texting style",[4] referencing the female aliases the protagonists adopt when saving each other's phone numbers for the first time. The song accompanies their first instance of anal sex in the episode "Olympians". Peter Peter initially used his 2024 song "Lisbonne" as a temp track before composing "It's You", processing his own and his girlfriend's vocals to produce a sound similar to "Hide and Seek" (2005) by Imogen Heap.[5]
"Inferno", which also appears in the episode "Olympians", accompanies a sexually explicit scene involving power-play dynamics. The track was described as a slow techno composition with a tempo of 90–100 beats per minute.[5]
Release
On January 9, 2026, Peter Peter released the tracks "Rivalry" and "It's You" as a double lead single from the album. The album itself was announced to be released later in January.[7][1] On January 13, Billboard revealed the tracklist and the release date for the digital edition to be January 16.[8] Furthermore, CD and LP releases were announced for later in 2026.[9]
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