‘Persona 5’ Soundtrack Soon To Be Available In Vinyl

A lot of music has gone digital, often sold through iTunes and Play Store. However, there is a growing trend of a vinyl version being released simultaneously with the digital version. The soundtrack of new video game “Persona 5” would soon come out in vinyl version.

According to Atlus, developer of “Persona 5,” there would even be two vinyl versions of the game’s soundtrack. Atlus teamed up with iam8bit to release the Essential edition and the Deluxe edition. GameSpot reports that the Essential edition is a 4xLP featuring curated selection of the most popular music from the new video game selected by the Atlus Sound Team. The Deluxe edition is a 6xLP which is a complete soundtrack featuring all the 100 songs from the Atlus video game.

According to Gematsu, iam8bit began to accept pre-orders from the two editions of the “Persona 5” soundtrack on Friday, April 28, at 10 a.m. PT. The Essential edition is priced at $100, while the Deluxe edition costs $175. The latter is a limited edition with only 1,000 copies made.

The vinyl records of the “Persona 5” music album would have a custom cover artwork to be revealed later. iam8bit says the entire creation process of the new video game, from mastering to vinyl production, would be documented. It would use videos, photos, and interviews to document the whole creation process. Invenglobal adds the vinyl soundtracks would start to ship in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Besides iam8bit, also to be involved in coming out with the artwork for the vinyl album cover of “Persona 5” are Atlus, Segam and a top-secret artist whose identity would soon be revealed. The new video game is about the one-year stay at the Shujin High School in Tokyo where the high school students moonlight as masked vigilantes. It is a turn-based combat combining complex social mores of a teenage high school.