Director Bryan Singer’s regular collaborator John Ottman worked on the score of the film, in addition to being its editor. Ottman is the first composer to score more than one film in the X-Men film series, having previously scored X2 (2003).This also marked the first time a theme from a previous X-Men film has been retained; Ottman re-used some of his themes from X2, most notably the main title theme.

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While Ottman retained the same style of “lyrical and build upon character themes that would weave in and out of the film and done in a straight orchestral sense” that he had used in X2, following Singer’s request he tried to compose “something more ‘modern’” that could be compared to other contemporary superhero scores, and not follow Henry Jackman’ score for First Class.

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The 1970s setting inspired the inclusion of “synthesized elements with some analog synths and electric piano and bass and some guitar”. The film score was released on digital download on May 16, 2014, on CD on May 26, 2014, and on vinyl on August 4, 2014. An expanded version of the soundtrack, including music exclusive to The Rogue Cut, was released on June 24, 2015 by Sony Classical Records.