JAMES NEWTON HOWARD - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Original Score) - 2LP - 180g Red Vinyl [FEB 2]

2LP - Limited Edition 180g Red Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. Includes a 4-page booklet with movie stills. Only 1000 individually numbered copies pressed in this edition. 

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is the highly anticipated new film in The Hunger Games movie franchise and is based on the 2020 same-titled novel by Suzanne Collins. This 2023 movie is the fifth installment and serves as a prequel, as the story is set 64 years before the events of the first movie. Its plot follows the events that eventually lead a young Coriolanus Snow on the path to becoming the tyrannical leader of Panem.

The music from the previous films went viral, especially with “The Hanging Tree” sung by Jennifer Lawrence and composed by James Newton Howard. Howard makes his return to the franchise after scoring the original four films. Featured throughout the album's 40 tracks is global superstar pianist Yuja Wang.

The vinyl edition of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes contains 37 orchestral tracks by James Newton Howard and 3 piano solo tracks by Yuja Wang composed by Howard. It's limited to 1000 individually numbered copies on red coloured vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve and includes a 4-page booklet with movie stills.

Tracklist: 

Side A
1. The Dark Days
2. Anthem: Gem Of Panem (Instrumental)
3. Coryo In The Capitol
4. Assigning The Mentors
5. Meet The Mentor
6. Gamemaker
7. Sejanus
8. Hunger Is A Weapon
9. Strategy
10. Department Of War
11. The Arena

Side B
1. Saving Snow
2. Ideas Firing
3. Happy Hunger Games
4. Mercy
5. Seize The Opportunity
6. Cut The Feed
7. Open The Gate
8. Powerful
9. Afraid Of Water

Side C
1. Drone Attack
2. Inside The Duct
3. Under The Flag
4. Planting The Cloth
5. Rainbow Of Destruction
6. Get Her Out
7. The Sound Of Snow
8. Your Life Has Just Begun
9. You Are Safe
10. Trust Is Everything

Side D
1. I Can’t Stay Here
2. Cabin In The Rain
3. Lucy?
4. The Woods
5. Change Of Plan
6. Passed The Tests
7. Snow Lands On Top Three Solos For Yuja
8. I. Friendship
9. II. Rue’s Farewell
10. III. Victor