BLOOD CULTURES - Skate Story, Vol. 1 - LP - Red Vinyl [DEC 12]

LP - Limited Edition Red Vinyl. 

Blood Cultures have always thrived in the shadows—anonymous figures cloaked in hoods, channeling psychedelic pop through the haze of Bollywood samples, bedroom electronics, and the uneasy glow of 1970s horror cinema. Now, the project is stepping into an entirely new arena: video games. The group’s upcoming fourth studio album also serves as the official soundtrack to Skate Story, the long-anticipated PlayStation title from developer Sam Eng.

It’s a natural collision. Eng’s surreal skateboarding odyssey—equal parts myth, motion, and melancholy—finds its mirror in Blood Cultures’ kaleidoscopic sound design. Across previous albums (Happy Birthday, Oh Uncertainty! A Universe Despairs, and LUNO), Blood Cultures built a reputation for music that blurs the line between dreamscape and confession, always delivered without a face, name, or biography to cling to. Their work has earned them tours with Superorganism and Goth Babe, but the allure has always been the anonymity: a refusal to let identity distract from immersion.

With Skate Story, that immersion deepens. The record isn’t just something to stream—it’s a living, breathing score to a world in motion, a soundtrack you can literally skate through. In turning their fourth album into a game soundtrack, Blood Cultures push their ethos to its limit: music that erases boundaries between medium, self, and story.

Tracklist: 

A1. Collapsing, Like Clouds Into Smoke
A2. Emptylands
A3. Where The City Can't See
A4. Into Pure Momentum
A5. Overlord
A6. It's Hostile.

B1. The Alpha, The Omega
B2. Alcian Blue
B3. Unarchiver
B4. Amble On Erratic Spindles
B5. Hole In The Sun
B6. The Age Of Disbelief