LeapingTitan said:First of all, I don't know where this trend in this fanbase started where you call an individual piece of music "OST". That stands for "Original Soundtrack" which is the entire catalogue you compose for a piece of media. Not one song in it like what everyone calls it.
But uh, "wELl aCtUallY" moment aside, the title of this post is wrong. There's been 4 new Sawano tracks in this season. I've been listening to his works for years and I'm very familiar with his compositional style to be able to recognize what he's done and what hasn't. Either way, Yamamoto himself said that Sawano has made some tracks, and we've already heard some of them.
- Reiner's suicide attempt in Episode 3 has a fast, dissonant piano improv playing in the background. That's a new track, and I can tell with certainty that it's Sawano because he has a pianist background and has done a lot of tracks like that before.
- There is an arrangement of the Levi vs Female Titan theme from Season 1 that plays when Mikasa arrives in Episode 6. Well, "arrangement", more like slapping guitars and drums over old songs and calling them new (main issue I have with things like Apple Seed that recycle older songs), but that's unfortunately nothing unusual for Sawano/Yamamoto sequel works.
- Same thing as above but XL-TT. Notably played when Mikasa fights the Warhammer, and when Armin transforms.
- During Mikasa and Louise's talk in Episode 11 there's a new piano melody that most likely stems from an orchestral track that we haven't heard yet. I am willing to be on that, as regardless of how much of the workload Sawano has given to Yamamoto in sequel works before, he's also done one "new" melody and variations of it. I'm looking forward to hearing it, personally.
As for my own opinion on the music situation, unfortunately as someone who follows Sawano's works regularly I am used to this kind of thing. He's brought up Yamamoto to take over sequel seasons a lot before because he already said that he's tired of composing for action shows and already had trouble coming up with new Attack on Titan music during Uprising considering how much music he's already made. That, and this season's production schedule probably didn't give him enough time to come up with much either. He's busy with the latter films of the Hathaway's Flash trilogy, 86, and a bunch of other projects we only know about from tweets.
And as for Yamamoto's music, personally I think his orchestral/action tracks are lackluster and very "EPIC HOLLYWOOD TRAILER BOOM BANG" which I'm not a fan of personally, but his more tame, quiet tracks (like the one where Willy and Magath talk in the carraige) are cool and I'm looking forward to those.