Ubisoft and Laced Records have renewed their adherence to the brotherhood to bring the music of Assassin’s Creed Shadows to vinyl.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows transports players to the rich setting of feudal Japan, anchored by a soundtrack that uses traditional instruments as well as playful modern production techniques, nodding both to the time period and the series’ sci-fi, time-travelling themes.

Composer duo The Flight (Joe Henson and Alexis Smith) return to the Assassin’s Creed series to provide a score that fuses traditional instrumentation with contemporary orchestral and electronic elements, creating a distinctive sense of time and place while playfully nodding to the series’ science-fiction themes.

The dual protagonists of Assassin’s Creed Shadows are represented with different instruments and musical approaches: stealthy shinobi adept Naoe by her in-game instrument of choice, the clay flute (tsuchibue) and disembodied whispering during stealth moments; and legendary samurai Yasuke with the sharper sounds of the stringed Shamisen and rhythmic intensity.

The Flight turned to master players for the performances of Japanese instruments, including Keiko Kitamura (koto) and Hibiki Ichikawa (shamisen). Other performers include vocalist Akari Mochizuki; flautists Kristin Naigus, Oriol Singh and Andy Findon; and The Flight’s musical collaborator on Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Michael Georgiades.

01. Shadows Main Theme
02. Welcome to Kyoto
03. The Long Shadow of Oda Nobunaga
04. The Fujibayashi Legacy
05. Morning Training
06. Auntie Matsu
07. Becoming a Shadow
08. What’s Been Hidden
09. Tomiko
10. Steel and Shadows
11. Into the Shadows
12. Naoe Attacks
13. Death of a Legend
14. An Assembly of Enemies
15. Rise of Yasuke
16. An Oath Fulfilled
17. Master Sorin
18. Sacred Ground
19. A Song of Remembrance
20. Bamboo Grove
21. Masked Enemies
22. The Incident
23. Busy Streets
24. Code of the Sword
25. A Moment of Sweetness
26. Chasing Demons
27. Akechi Mitsuhide
28. Matters of the Heart
29. Yasuke’s Past