Death Waltz Announces Vinyl Release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack

It’s the year of Twin Peaks!

The beloved cult classic will make its highly anticipated return to television on Showtime, with original co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost at the helm—exact debut date TBD. Showtime’s David Nevin has said the revival is set to air “in the second-quarter” of 2017, so we’ve still got a bit of a wait. Luckily, our Twin Peaks separation anxiety will be somewhat eased by Death Waltz Recording Company’s release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on vinyl for the series continuation film’s 25th anniversary.

The film soundtrack will be completely remastered and presented on a gorgeous 2LP “cherry-pie” colored 180g vinyl (we think Agent Cooper would greatly approve). It features composer Angelo Badalamenti beautiful broody soundtrack in all its haunting glory. Badalamenti, who has scored many of Lynch’s films, was awarded the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the Twin Peaks theme. The vinyl is housed in artwork by Sam Smith (Lynch-approved, of course) and packaged by Jay Shaw to complement last year’s release of the Twin Peaks score on vinyl. While the entire Twin Peaks franchise has a recognizable sound, there are a few subtle differences between the series soundtrack and the movie soundtrack. Mondo Record Label Manager Spencer Hickman discusses the remastering:

Fire Walk With Me is an altogether more brooding affair than the Twin Peaks series soundtrack. Badalamenti won a Grammy for the title track of this LP and it’s not hard to see why—it’s dangerous, and bursting with smokey jazz thanks to Jimmy Scott. We went back to the master tapes in the Warner Archives and had this recut to fit across two LPs as the score clocks in at 51 minutes. It sounds incredible and punchy, but super nuanced too.