Cool Stuff: Mondo Will Release Howard Shore’s ‘Crash,’ ‘Dead Ringers,’ And ‘Naked Lunch’ Scores On Vinyl
For the first time,Howard Shore’s scores for three ofDavid Cronenberg’s finest pictures –Crash,Dead Ringers, andNaked Lunch– will be released on vinyl, courtesy of Mondotees. As expected, they’re giving these soundtracks the grand treatment, with three gorgeous custom made covers that evoke the unnerving tone of Cronenberg’s trio of films.
Below, learn more about the upcoming Mondo vinyl releases.
Composer Howard Shore and director David Cronenberg, who grew up in the same neighborhood, have collaborated a total of 15 times. They first worked together in 1977 onThe Brood, a score previously released on vinyl by Mondotees. It was Shore’s second film score, and almost 40 years later, he and Cronenberg continue to work together.
Here are the covers and official specs released by Mondo:
Music By Howard Shore // Ornette Coleman
Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra
Original Artwork by Rich Kelly
25th Anniversary. First time ever on Vinyl.
Available online at mondotees.com May 25th
“Naked Lunch is one of the great film scores” wrote [professor] Royal S. Brown. “The whole thing, which has been recorded with exceptional depth and warmth, gives a simultaneous impression of simplicity and complexity, of harmony and dissonance, of reality and half dream, rather like Burroughs' own disturbing visions.”
Music By Howard Shore
Original Artwork by Randy Ortiz
First time ever on Vinyl.
Available online at mondotees.com this June
Howard Shore has said that “the music inDead Ringersworks all around the edges. It’s all about subtext.” Shore won the Genie Award for the Dead Ringers score.
Music by Howard Shore
20th Anniversary. First time ever on Vinyl.
Available online at mondotees.com this July
John Bender wrote “Shore’s calculated instrumentation, mostly electronically manipulated guitars, harps and percussion, giveCrasha cold and burnished metallic sound.”
Mondo will release the scores on vinyl over the course of the summer. To celebrateNaked Lunch’s 25th anniversary, Shore’s score for that film is the first of the vinyl releases was madeavailable to purchaseon May 25, and is still on sale now. Any fan of Shore’s work, especially with Cronenberg, shouldn’t miss out on adding these soundtracks to their vinyl collection.Crash– a film in serious need of a Blu-ray release — is a must-own soundtrack, a nightmarish score that intensifies as Cronenberg’s story builds towards its horrifying conclusion.
