New releases: Music for super heroes
COMIC aficionados and superhero fans, rejoice, your super-hobby now has a soundtrack.
Sony Classical released of The Music of DC Comics: Volume 2 on CD and digital formats, with Double Vinyl coming soon.
A follow-up companion piece to 2010's critically acclaimed The Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2 of the series continues to celebrate the rich musical history of DC Comics.
A must-have for fans, this compilation features recordings from 1940 to 2016 from a variety of DC Comics movies, TV shows, animated series, videogames, and radio shows.
Containing more than 60 minutes of music, the album features John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Junkie XL, Sun Ra, Shirley Walker and Mark Hamill, among others.
The release also includes 11 never-before-released recordings from the DC Archive, such as the themes and narration from 1949's Columbia Pictures serial Batman and Robin, 1958's The Adventures of Superpup, 1978's Challenge of the Superfriends and The Ballad of Batman from 2002's Batman The Brave And The Bold.
Additional unreleased music includes themes from 2015s, Supergirl, and 2016s DC's Legends of Tomorrow, both of which were produced by composer Blake Neely specifically for this album.
The full three-minute version of Get Your Cape On from 2015's DC Superhero Girls is included along with Penguin Makes Moves, the first commercial musical release from 2015s Gotham.
This album also features three tracks from Sun Ra & The Blues Project that have been out of print since the 1960s.