The last calendar page of the year (and, in this case, even the first!) means a bounty of soundtrack reissues! La-La Land Records, Varese Sarabande and Quartet have all recently planned some exciting expansions for your favorite score collector. La-La Land may have claimed that they were “serving coal” this year, with a lot of their typically big end-of-year titles stuck in approval delays – but they still prepared two late-period favorites from two classic film composers (plus an exciting vinyl title for James Bond fans) before kicking off January with two…
La-La Land Scares Up ‘Munsters’ Music, Ryuichi Sakamoto Score
La-La Land’s latest batch of archival soundtracks celebrate a prolific television composer of the ’60s and an orchestral film score from recently deceased pioneer of electronic music. In the first season of Netflix’s cult sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, an oafish party guest (played with boorish perfection by Tim Heidecker) aggravates some new friends during a game in which people try to guess famous names out of a hat; all of his selections are mostly made-up “obscure” jazz musicians. But one fact, mentioned as an aside,…
