True Romance

Description

Although it was directed by Tony Scott, the 1993 film True Romance featured all the iconic themes and imagery of its screenwriter, Quentin Tarantino, from its macabre violence to its B-movie worthy tributes, along with its joyful amorality. The same can be said for the soundtrack; alongside composer Hans Zimmer's riff on Carl Orff (itself a nod to another violent road movie, Badlands), True Romance offered a playlist that reminded one of Tarantino in its embrace of rockabilly (Charlie Sexton, Chris Isaak), grunge (Soundgarden), honky-tonk (Shelby Lynne), and romantic machismo (Robert Palmer's version of “[Love Is] The Tender Trap”). Vinyl would seem a natural fit for such a "twisted" soundtrack; and for this reissue, we created a custom jacket featuring production images from the film.