Howard Shore’s ‘The Shrouds’ Soundtrack Pressed on Vinyl by Mutant

David Cronenberg‘s The Shrouds soundtrack is available on vinyl from Mutant in partnership with Howe Records.

The score is composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings), who has handled all but one of Cronenberg’s soundtracks since 1979.

The album is pressed on 140-gram Gravestone colored vinyl, limited to 500, and packaged in a jacket designed by Mutant co-founder Mo Shafeek. Priced at $35, it’s due out on June 27.

Mutant writes, “The Shrouds continues in the mold of Crimes of the Future, with a delicate but deceptively sinister synth score. In a film about burial, decay, and the search for meaning—marred by conspiracy theories and an overreliance on technology—the film and score find a space that balances the ethereal and the dreadful. The sacred and profane.”

The Shrouds opens in New York and Los Angeles today and will expand nationwide on April 25 from Sideshow and Janus Films.

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth.

While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.

Vincent Cassel (Black Swan), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), and Sandrine Holt (Resident Evil: Apocalypse) star.

Joe Lipsett wrote in his review, “The Shrouds is clearly a personal mediation on the director’s own struggles with grief and loss, but even beyond its ties to his lived experience, the film plays like a pastiche of Cronenberg’s prior work and interests.”