Jason Hill Bio

He first made his name as the singer, guitarist, and producer of the band Louis XIV, building a reputation for an unusually wide stylistic range.

His move into film and television began in 2014, when David Fincher tapped him to produce the theatrical trailer for Gone Girl — a reimagining of Charles Aznavour’s “She,” with Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs on vocals. That collaboration grew into one of the defining creative partnerships of Hill’s career. He went on to score Fincher’s HBO series Videosyncrazy, the Emmy-winning Netflix series Mindhunter, Voir, and Bad Travelling — Fincher’s only animated short film, part of the Emmy-winning anthology Love, Death, and Robots. Most recently he produced the IMAX theatrical trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, Fincher’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel written by Quentin Tarantino.

His range as a composer extends well beyond that partnership. For Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams, which won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at Sundance and starred Jonathan Majors, Hill wrote a score built on flutes, string quartets, and unconventional instrumentation. He composed the score for the first season of Apple TV+’s Dark Matter, adapted by Blake Crouch from his own novel and starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly; his main theme and cues carry through the second season. Hill won a BMI Composer Award for Mindhunter in 2021 and a second for Dark Matter in 2025.

Further credits include November 1963, the Kennedy-assassination thriller from director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission); Paramount/Showtime’s Couples Therapy; the Netflix video game UNHINGED; the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and City on Fire; the Netflix documentaries Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, The Confession Killer, and This Is a Robbery; Philip O’Leary’s The Buffalo Hunt; and Amazon Prime’s Them: The Scare.

As a producer and arranger, Hill created new recordings of two Robbie Williams songs for the biopic Better Man, directed by Michael Gracey: “Come Undone” and “Angels.” For “Angels” — Williams’ biggest-selling and most-streamed single, an Ivor Novello winner voted the best British song of the past 25 years at the 2005 BRIT Awards — Hill wrote and produced new choral and orchestral arrangements. The Better Man soundtrack reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, earning Hill an Official Number 1 Award from the Official Charts Company in January 2025.

As an artist, Hill continues to front Louis XIV and previously led Vicky Cryer, whose lineup drew from The Killers, Muse, Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, Jet, and Jamiroquai. He sang backing vocals on The Killers’ multi-platinum album Sam’s Town. In 2011 he joined The New York Dolls, playing bass on several tours after producing the band’s final album, Dancing Backward in High Heels. He has also produced, written, or collaborated with David Bowie, Brandon Flowers, Sky Ferreira, Ariel Pink, The Virgins, Macy Gray, Neon Trees, The Bronx, Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele (Empire of the Sun, Pnau), and IDKHOW (I Don’t Know How But They Found Me). Earlier in his career he was a member of the seminal alt-country band Convoy, which toured with The White Stripes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Aerosmith.

In 2015, Hill purchased a historic Glendale recording studio, originally built in the mid-1970s, and transformed it into Department of Recording and Power. The complex, which produced landmark records by The Beach Boys, James Brown, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, and Joe Cocker, has been revitalized for a new generation of artists, among them The Killers, Empire of the Sun, and Jet. Nearly all of Hill’s film and television work is written, recorded, and mixed there.

Now, alongside his film work and the studio, Hill is returning to his roots as an artist and collaborator — writing and producing for other musicians, taking on new band projects, and developing his own music.