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Perfect Blue Original Score - Deluxe Audiophile Edition (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP

Tiger Lab / SKU: lp-14913
harrowing instrumentals from the '97 underground anime classic
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  • Perfect Blue was one of the more defensible titles in that weirdly curated Anime section in Blockbuster Video that always seemed a little too close to the kid's stuff. A milestone in animated storytelling, Perfect Blue is a bleak psychological horror film that critiques the rampant media-driven consumerism and vanity that came hand-in-hand with the Japanese economic bubble of the early 90’s. The film features a mix of candy-coated (but average) J-Pop and a moody, chilling instrumental score, the latter of which is collected on this LP. “Nightmare” blurs the lines between purposeful instrumentation and Sacred Bones-ish industrial musique concrete, “Mima’s Theme” is theremin and eerie strings. “Virtual Mima” could be a dubbed-out remix of a contemporary Bjork track, with relentlessly layered eclectic percussion and deft mixing board effects. There’s a “vocal” version as well, which sounds like a lost track from 1996's Ghost In The Shell OST. Recommended!

    • deluxe audiophile edition pressed at 45RPM on 2LP for the first time
    • purple & gold splatter colored double vinyl pressing
    • housed in full color gatefold sleeve
    • limited edition
    • original release year: 1997
    • music label: Tiger Lab 2024
    reviewed by SOMETIMES CRYSTAL 05/2019
    upc: 600385303811

Perfect Blue was one of the more defensible titles in that weirdly curated Anime section in Blockbuster Video that always seemed a little too close to the kid's stuff. A milestone in animated storytelling, Perfect Blue is a bleak psychological horror film that critiques the rampant media-driven consumerism and vanity that came hand-in-hand with the Japanese economic bubble of the early 90’s. The film features a mix of candy-coated (but average) J-Pop and a moody, chilling instrumental score, the latter of which is collected on this LP. “Nightmare” blurs the lines between purposeful instrumentation and Sacred Bones-ish industrial musique concrete, “Mima’s Theme” is theremin and eerie strings. “Virtual Mima” could be a dubbed-out remix of a contemporary Bjork track, with relentlessly layered eclectic percussion and deft mixing board effects. There’s a “vocal” version as well, which sounds like a lost track from 1996's Ghost In The Shell OST. Recommended!

  • deluxe audiophile edition pressed at 45RPM on 2LP for the first time
  • purple & gold splatter colored double vinyl pressing
  • housed in full color gatefold sleeve
  • limited edition
  • original release year: 1997
  • music label: Tiger Lab 2024
reviewed by SOMETIMES CRYSTAL 05/2019
upc: 600385303811

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