Peaky Blinders and the Genius of “Wrong” Music | The Immortal Man Soundtrack

In Peaky Blinders, the music is completely wrong.The story is set in the early 20th century, yet the soundtrack is filled with modern artists like Nick Cave, Fontaines D.C., Lankum, and Amyl and the Sniffers.So why does it work so well?With the release of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, this episode of The Last Mixed Tape explores how the show’s anachronistic soundtrack reflects deeper themes beneath the story from industrial decline and Irish migration in Birmingham to post-war trauma and modern anxieties about the future.Rather than recreating the past, Peaky Blinders uses modern music to capture something more powerful: the emotional and cultural echoes between history and the present.