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Soundtracks on Vinyl News: Mank Original Score Deluxe Edition 3xLP Announced!
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| Courtesy of nin.com |
Forced to improvise in uncharted territory, Reznor and Ross
navigated the pandemic as best they could, rendering separate instrumentations
from home and online and managing to complete both projects in a timely fashion. While Soul was unanimously well
received, winning Reznor and Ross their second Oscars for Best Original Score, Mank
was met with tepid reception and their efforts to veer away completely from
synthesized instrumentation in favor of authentic period sounds came and went
mostly unnoticed.
Despite one of their two soundtrack projects succeeding over
the other, their work on Mank managed to score the duo a second Oscar
nomination in the same year and longstanding Nine Inch Nails fans were taken
aback by the sudden abrupt change in styles and approaches. Though ostensibly a Reznor/Ross score with
all of their beats and recurring notes indicative of a Nine Inch Nails album,
everything in this sounds like it was sampled out of the 40s big band sound and
foxtrot music. You have to listen really
closely to minutiae to pick up on this being helmed by generally electronic
musicians operating outside of their comfort zones.
While a physical release of the Netflix produced period
drama about the battle over the writing of Citizen Kane remains to be
seen (where’s the Criterion?), Nine Inch Nails and their webstore nin.com have
however announced a most ornate and deluxe limited edition vinyl boxed set
release of the 2020 soundtrack album.
Tailored to look like a 78rpm record set of big band ditties from the
40s replete with specially designed sleeves and spines meant to emulate a
bygone era and a biography of Reznor and Ross that looks like a jazz band with
the two in well dressed renderings, the Mank album is truly a thing of
wonderment in terms of packaging and jacket design.
Split into three records over six sides, the album is
pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl for a deeper, richer sound. In addition to a formal physical media
release of the album, nin.com is also offering a special even more deluxe
digital release of the album on Bandcamp which comes with pre-orchestrated
demos and tracks that didn’t make it to the final cut. Further still the digital release comes in a
variety of formats including lossless high-end audio. All in all, everything you could possibly
want and more from Nine Inch Nails’ work on David Fincher’s period piece about
one of the most legendary films ever made is being offered on physical as well
as digital media. Stay tuned for further
details as this release goes public!
--Andrew Kotwicki
