David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, Matt Griffin (11) & Dan Murdoch (2) — Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair Vinyl Soundtrack cover

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David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, Matt Griffin (11) & Dan Murdoch (2)
Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair Vinyl Soundtrack

David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, Matt Griffin (11) & Dan Murdoch (2) — Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair Vinyl Soundtrack, 2022. Verified release details and tracklist.

Label
Fangamer
Catalog
FG32
Year
2022
Format
Vinyl, Vinyl, All Media

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Listening notes

Released in 2022 on Fangamer (catalog number FG32), the Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair Vinyl Soundtrack collects music from the 2019 Playtonic platformer across a double LP spread over four sides. The release is credited to David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, Matt Griffin, and Dan Murdoch, with Griffin credited on eleven tracks and Murdoch on two.

The tracklist runs to thirty entries across sides A through D. Side A opens with the "Main Theme" and moves through level-specific cues including "Capital Causeway," "Factory Fright," "Wild Web Woods," "Frantic Fountains," and "Windmill Way," along with a frozen variant of "Frantic Fountains." Side B continues with environmental and stage compositions such as "Urban Uprise," "Sawblade Evade," and overworld cues tied to the forest and canyon settings. Side C covers coastal and aerial environments, including two versions of "Turbine Trouble," the tidal variant sitting alongside the standard cue, and both a docked and standard reading of "Scareship Scroll." Side D closes the set with the overworld's final zone, "Pumping Plant - Powered," and five separately sequenced segments of "The Impossible Lair" itself, numbered one through five.

A recurring structural feature across the album is the use of variant tracks — alternate versions of core compositions that reflect in-game environmental states such as flooding, freezing, or aerial docking. These account for a meaningful portion of the total track count and suggest that the sequencing attempts to reflect the game's own layered approach to its music.

The release was published by Fangamer, a label with an established catalog of video game music on vinyl. No additional personnel, pressing, or packaging details are confirmed in the available data.

Tracklist

On the record

  1. A1Main Theme
  2. A2The Overworld
  3. A3Capital Causeway
  4. A4Factory Fright
  5. A5Wild Web Woods
  6. A6Frantic Fountains
  7. A7Frantic Fountains - Frozen
  8. A8Windmill Way
  9. B9The Overworld - Forest
  10. B10Factory Fright - Flooded
  11. B11Urban Uprise
  12. B12Conveyer Chaos - Crosswire
  13. B13Production Path - Panic
  14. B14Sawblade Evade
  15. B15The Overworld - Canyon
  16. C16The Overworld - Beach
  17. C17Turbine Trouble
  18. C18Turbine Trouble - Tidal
  19. C19Boom Bloom Blast
  20. C20Hazard Hanger
  21. C21Scareship Scroll
  22. C22Scareship Scroll - Docked (Airship)
  23. C23Buzzsaw Falls - Frozen
  24. D24The Overworld - The Final Zone
  25. D25Pumping Plant - Powered
  26. D26The Impossible Lair 1
  27. D27The Impossible Lair 2
  28. D28The Impossible Lair 3
  29. D29The Impossible Lair 4
  30. D30The Impossible Lair 5

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