Pre-Order: Heart Shaped World [LP] Vinyl Record

Chris Isaak's Heart Shaped World Is a MoodMasterpiece: Double-Platinum Album Featuresthe Smash "Wicked Game," Brilliant Singing, andExtraordinary Guitar TonesExperience the Brooding 1989 Record inDefinitive Sound: Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc 180g45RPM 2LP Box Set Plays with Remarkable Detailand Includes the Bonus Track "Diddley Daddy"There was nothing in contemporary music like Chris Isaak's HeartShaped World when it hit shelves in June 1989. More than threedecades later, the singer-songwriter's third album still sounds unique.Home to the Top 10 smash "Wicked Game," the brooding set remainsa masterful mood piece that invites you to pour a late-night drink andrelish Isaak's elegant albeit raw ruminations on love, relationships,and questionable decisions. For all the melodrama and sadness athand, Isaak's baritone dives deep underneath emotional surfaces.He mines subtleties that go beyond heartbreak and anguish,and occasionally suggest frustration, menace, and anger. Thecontributions of his backing band, anchored by the brilliant playing ofguitarist James Calvin Wilsey, seamlessly match his patient deliveriesand cool command.Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity RecordPressing, and featuring the bonus track "Diddley Daddy," MobileFidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set of HeartShaped World unearths the staggering inner details, saturatedtones, and extraordinary atmospherics of the crisp production. Thisdemonstration-grade reissue brings you up close and personalwith Isaak's spectacular singing - impeccably controlled, tense,brooding, steamy, smoldering, haunted - situated amidst strippeddown backdrops that allow every note to fully bloom and decay. Therecord's lonesome temperaments and pensive themes have neverbeen more hypnotic on vinyl. As Isaak croons on the title track:"Trouble going down." Indeed.