Update: Both the 'Original Soundtrack 2' collection and the K.K. Slider vinyl release are now available to pre-order at PlayAsia with worldwide shipping available. Here are the links you need (more info in our original article below):
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Original Article (Thu 28th Apr, 2022 11:00 BST): The Animal Crossing series has some of the most relaxing and downright lovely music in the entire video game industry. From soft, chill music to help you study to upbeat music that just puts you in the best mood, there's something for everyone. Last year, for the series' 20th anniversary, we got a beautiful 7-disc soundtrack to celebrate, and we're now getting a follow-up.
On 22nd June, Nintendo will be releasing the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Original Soundtrack 2. This release features some of the music from last year's collection, along with plenty of new additions right up until the 2.0 patch. That means the music from Happy Home Paradise won't be included, but at least there are plenty of other cosy tunes to sit back and chill out to.
Priced at 7,480 yen, which is just over £45.00 or $57.00. The soundtrack contains five CDs with over 140 tracks. Some of the music is from last year's original release, but the fifth disc contains all the music added in the updates.
There's also a DVD that contains a K.K. Slider promotional video, along with some aerobics exercises that are based on the ones you can do outside of the town hall. How adorable! To go with this, there's a little stamp card you can mark to say you've attended aerobics, and there are also 12 postcards you can send to your friends. Or keep and frame.
That's not the only Animal Crossing music release, however. On 23rd November, last year's K.K. Slider Music: Instrumental Collection is getting a vinyl rerelease, which will cost 4,620 yen — around £28.00 or $35.00. This keeps all 18 tracks from the original release while adding one brand new bonus track for diehard K.K. Slider fans. You can go and listen to a sample of that fresh new beat from the dog himself over on Nintendo Japan's press release.
These are only planned to be available in Japan right now through the My Nintendo Store, Nintendo TOKYO, and many CD shops across the county. The special collection from last year was eventually added to Amazon US, however, and given New Horizon's popularity, it's hard to think it won't eventually be available overseas.
Will you be grabbing this soundtrack collection or K.K. Slider's vinyl? Let us know!
[source topics.nintendo.co.jp, via gonintendo.com]
Comments 19
I am pretty tempted to add this to my OST collection.
I am not sure I even own a CD player? Oh wait this laptop has one.
It's honestly kind of disappointing the K.K. Slider vinyl is just the instrumental tracks rather than the vocal versions, though it's still kind of tempting...
Have been looking for this on digital. Japan-only CD is doubly annoying.
@SwitchplayerJohn Blu ray players also work for CDs.
Would rather have it digitally.
How bloody annoying considering that I already have the first set. They should have just waited and issued a single complete set.
A re-release of the AC amiibo albums would be nice.
@SwitchplayerJohn your laptop has a cd drive? That's a rarity nowadays.
Seriously though, how hard is it to put music onto iTunes and Spotify!?!
I'm glad they still do the lavish physical OSTs. The Breath of the Wild and Skyward Sword releases are absolutely beautiful. And doubly glad for physical releases period, as the world pivots harder into music only existing on someone else's servers which leaves us at the whims of licenses, temperamental artists, and Nintendo. Buying physical and running your own plex music server (or whatever) is the only way to go.
I vaguely remember an article where a bunch of videos on youtube were pulled off, and AC music was a lot of it. If I didn't dream that then I'm guessing this is why they did that.
I always thought it would be cool if Nintendo released 45s of K.K.'s music, with the live performance on one side and the aircheck on the other, but I'll take this too! Hopefully I can figure out how to import it before it sells out.
Darn it all! I thought this article was going to say that New Horizons the game, would be getting a second soundtrack!
That would be enough to get me to try it again. As it is, New Horizons has BY FAR(!!!) the worst music of any AC game. I dislike it so much I stopped playing altogether, and went back to New Leaf.
@mystman12 no localization on a record! bonus points for analog
@mystman12 Pre-orders just went live and you can ordered it to ship directly to you! (bit pricey though)
I just snagged my preorder so that I can listen to DJ KK all day just like my original AC house
Thanks for the heads up, I just snagged one as well!
Now everyone can listen to 2 P.M. all the time!
@Shredderlovespizza : The beauty of CDs is that the quality is lossless and you can either rip them at full quality or convert them to an inferior format for your music device.
When it comes to digitally-distributed music, they are almost always heavily compressed.
Now that I can see the full track list on Play Asia, I can confirm that none of this music is duplicated from the previous release as the article suggests. This release has KK's LIVE performances whereas the last one had airchecks. This one also includes airchecks of the new songs from 2.0...which I only just now learned exist.
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