iam8bit is releasing reissues of several of Annapurna Interactive’s popular vinyl soundtracks this week, including the soundtracks for What Remains of Edith Finch, Donut Country, and Kentucky Route Zero. Supplies are limited, so interested fans should visit iam8bit.com this Thursday at 9 A.M. PDT if they are interested in purchasing any of the reissues. You can read below for more information on each release:
iam8bit is reissuing several of Annapurna Interactive‘s beloved vinyl soundtracks this week, including Kentucky Route Zero, Sayonara Wild Hearts, What Remains of Edith Finch, Donut County, and more. Supplies are limited, so fans will want to visit iam8bit.com this Thursday.
Here’s what’s going on sale June 27 at 9 a.m. PDT:
The soundtrack is the very epitome of “chill,” collaging together acoustically serene strumming on all sorts of stringed instruments – not to mention an occasional funky beat or synth whomp, scientifically proven* to trigger feelings of euphoria. Composer Daniel Koestner has crafted such a cool, colorful atmosphere with these sounds that it’s already on rotation at hipster animal coffee shops everywhere. This refreshed reissue comes in an all-new, sturdy wide-spine jacket, ensuring the colorful vinyl discs will stay snug as a bug inside. The outer jacket features the same iconic album art from Lily Nishita. Plus, we’ve repurposed the original inner mural as a gigantic 48” Fold Out Poster, perfect for adorning your living room wall.
There’s a lot to be said for first love… and no better way to say it than with Kevin Penkin’s gentle, charming, and emotional score to Florence. It’s one of those rare soundtracks that takes on a new life outside of the game’s narrative, because once spinning on your living room turntable, its lush and bittersweet aurality will harken your own memories of firsts – first sight, first kiss, first fight, first makeup, and so on.
Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game in five acts, featuring a haunting electronic score, and a suite of hymns and bluegrass standards created and recorded by Ben Babbitt and The Bedquilt Ramblers. Rendered in a striking visual style that draws as much from theater, film, and experimental electronic art as it does from the history of videogames, this is a story of unpayable debts, abandoned futures, and the human drive to find community.
The best music shakes your soul and pulls you into another world. Sayonara Wild Hearts is, quite literally, that transportative, as if its songs hold your hand on a journey through a high-speed, fluorescent-drenched dance cyclone. iam8bit has teamed up with Simogo and Annapurna Interactive to bring you a Swedish pop music motorcycle mash up that will change the way you experience music… FOREVER. Star in your own music video, restore harmony in the universe, and leave your heartbreak in the dust with the fast-paced, visually stunning adventure of a lifetime.
The musical cadence of What Remains of Edith Finch is deliberately slow, immensely methodical and eventually, cathartic. Once you reach its bittersweet and triumphant conclusion, the score, at first so somber, achieves something few soundtracks do – taking the listener on a robust emotional journey, wrought with swells of every sensation within the Freudian encyclopedia, all told through the eyes of the Finch family’s harrowing memories. Composer Jeff Russo (Fargo, Legion, The Night Of) conveys all of this and more, with complexity and sincerity, leaving players with a hummable, yet cursed melody that eerily bonds with their very being.
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