Us OST – Deluxe Edition "The Untethering" Colored Vinyl 2 LP

Waxwork Records is proud to present the Us Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring a score by composer Michael Abels. Us, released in March 2019, is an original nightmare written, directed and produced by Academy Award®-winning visionary Jordan Peele (Get Out). Set in present-day Santa Cruz on the iconic Northern California coastline, the film, starring Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong’o and Black Panther’s Winston Duke, pits an ordinary American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.

Abels featured a 30 person choir, a third of them children, in the “Anthem,” and implemented Eastern European instruments, violins, percussion, and a virtual instrument called a Propanium drum. “It makes this trashy metal sound, but you can also play melodies on it,” Abels said. “The Propanium drum has a sound that’s both otherworldly but not electronic or like science fiction. It’s a sound you can’t quite put your finger on, which is why it works well in this film.”

Also included on the soundtrack is the 1995 hip-hop hit “I Got 5 On It” by Luniz and the stand-out track “I Like That” by Janelle Monáe. Abels also helped with a new arrangement of the Luniz hit, which is featured on the soundtrack as the ‘Tethered Mix from Us’.

Waxwork presents the soundtrack and score as a deluxe double LP featuring 180-gram "The Untethering” Red, Brass, and White split colored vinyl. The album artwork was created by illustrator Edward Kinsella. The interactive packaging includes die-cut inner gatefold jackets that require customers to use scissors to cut through family-member portraits to reveal their tethered doppelgängers lurking in the shadows on the printed inner sleeves housed within. More deluxe items include a die-cut mirror board back cover, a heavyweight 11”x11” art print, and an exclusive essay by UCLA Professor, scholar, and activist Shana L. Redmond Ph.D., author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora

Disc 1

Side A

1. Michael Abels – Anthem

2. Janelle Monáe – I Like That

3. Michael Abels – Outernet

4. Michael Abels – Spider

5. Michael Abels – Ballet Memory

6. Luniz – I Got 5 On It

7. Michael Abels – Beach Walk

8. Michael Abels – First Man Standing

9. Michael Abels – Back To The House

Side B

1. Michael Abels – Keep You Safe

2. Michael Abels – Don't Feel Like Myself

3. Michael Abels – She Tried To Kill Me

4. Michael Abels – Boogieman's Family

5. Michael Abels – Home Invasion

6. Michael Abels – Once Upon A Time

7. Michael Abels – Run

Disc 2

Side C

1. Michael Abels – Into The Water

2. Michael Abels – Spark In The Closest

3. Michael Abels – Escape To The Boat

4. Michael Abels – Femme Fatale

5. Michael Abels – Silent Scream

6. Michael Abels – News Report

7. Michael Abels – Zora Drives

8. Michael Abels – Death Of Umbrae

9. Michael Abels – Somber Ride

10. Michael Abels – Immolation

11. Michael Abels – Down The Rabbit Hole

Side D

1. Michael Abels – Performance Art

2. Michael Abels – Human

3. Michael Abels – Battle Plan

4. Michael Abels – Pas De Deux

5. Michael Abels – They Can't Hurt You

6. Michael Abels – Finale

7. Minnie Riperton – Les Fleurs

8. Luniz – I Got 5 On It (Tethered Mix From Us)

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UPC: 657768208362
Release Date: 2023