Heart Shaped World [180 Gram Vinyl]

Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World [180 Gram 33RPM Audiophile SuperVinyl UltraDisc One-Step, slipcase, limited/numbered to 3000]

Chris Isaak’s Heart Shaped World Is a Mood Masterpiece: Double-Platinum Album Features the Smash “Wicked Game,” Brilliant Singing, and Extraordinary Guitar Tones

Experience the Brooding 1989 Record in Definitive Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set Plays with Remarkable Detail and Includes the Bonus Track “Diddley Daddy”

There was nothing in contemporary music like Chris Isaak’s Heart Shaped World when it hit shelves in June 1989. More than three decades later, the singer-songwriter’s third album still sounds unique. Home to the Top 10 smash “Wicked Game,” the brooding set remains a masterful mood piece that invites you to pour a late-night drink and relish Isaak’s elegant albeit raw ruminations on love, relationships, and questionable decisions. For all the melodrama and sadness at hand, Isaak’s baritone dives deep underneath emotional surfaces. He mines subtleties that go beyond heartbreak and anguish, and occasionally suggest frustration, menace, and anger. The contributions of his backing band, anchored by the brilliant playing of guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, seamlessly match his patient deliveries and cool command.

Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and featuring the bonus track “Diddley Daddy,” Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set of Heart Shaped World unearths the staggering inner details, saturated tones, and extraordinary atmospherics of the crisp production. This demonstration-grade reissue brings you up close and personal with Isaak’s spectacular singing — impeccably controlled, tense, brooding, steamy, smoldering, haunted — situated amidst stripped down backdrops that allow every note to fully bloom and decay. The record’s lonesome temperaments and pensive themes have never been more hypnotic on vinyl. As Isaak croons on the title track:
“Trouble going down.” Indeed.

Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step Process
Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step and bypasses two processes of generational loss. In addition to revealing extra musical detail and dynamics otherwise lost due to the standard copying process, the UD1S technique produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today.

1/2” / 30 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe

STRICTLY LIMITED TO 3,000 NUMBERED COPIES
Numbered Limited Edition UD1S
180g 45RPM 2LP Set

Track List:
Side One:
Heart Shaped World
I’m Not Waiting
Don’t Make Me Dream About You
Side Two:
Kings of the Highway
Wicked Game

Side Three:
Blue Spanish Sky
Wrong to Love You
Forever Young
Side Four:
Nothing’s Changed
In the Heat of the Jungle
Diddley Daddy