Invada Records will release Stranger Things 5 – Original Score from the Netflix Series next month, featuring music by two-time Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein.
This 95-track collection is spread across two double-vinyl volumes and housed in a beautiful heavyweight gatefold sleeve with full colour printed inner jackets. It include the original score to Season 5, as well as the music from the finale.
Music has been an integral component of the Netflix series from the first season onwards, when it set a perfectly vintage and sinister tone. Each season, Dixon and Stein’s music has evolved with the show reflecting a deep connection with the lives of the characters and the ever more intense storylines.
In the annals of film and television, certain musical themes manage to transcend the moving image, memorable scores have the uncanny ability to sum up an epoch, an entire aesthetic.
The album is being offered in different formats, including an Invada Records exclusive pressing on a limited edition black vinyl for serious collectors out there. These are strictly limited to 300 copies of each volume and will not be available at retail, only direct from Invada.
The coloured LP variants, which will also be available in record shops, are pressed on a stunning special metallic effect vinyl. Volume 1 is pressed on metallic bronze effect wax and Volume 2 on a metallic silver.
“We’ve never seen anything like these before,” say Invada, “really looking forward to getting our hands on them!”
Prolific Texan musicians Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein are responsible for a body of work that’s synonymous with the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, the supernatural everytown at the centre of the Netflix hit Stranger Things. But as the small town becomes the unlikely site for a supernatural battle within the hit series, Dixon and Stein’s soundscapes, too, have expanded in lockstep.
In the meantime, Stein and Dixon compose music for feature films, documentary series, large-scale installations and play in the band S U R V I V E.
Working in the lineage of predecessors like John Carpenter and peers like Oneohtrix Point Never, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein use a lifelong obsession with synthesisers and electronic music as a vehicle.
The album(s) are available to pre-order now – available individually or if you want both volumes to complete the collection Invada do have a limited amount of money-saving bundles available
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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