[PRE-ORDER] Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World [UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2-lp Box Set] [Release Date: 09/25/2026]

Chris Isaak’s Heart Shaped World Is a Mood Masterpiece: Double-Platinum Album Features the Smash “Wicked Game,” Brilliant Singing, and Extraordinary Guitar Tones
Experience the Brooding 1989 Album in Definitive Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set Is Strictly Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies and Includes the Bonus Track “Diddley Daddy”

1/2” / 30 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
There was nothing in contemporary music like Chris Isaak’s Heart Shaped World when it hit shelves in June 1989. More than three decades later, the singer-songwriter’s third album still sounds unique — and claims a backstory nearly as fascinating as the retro-leaning material and standout performances that propelled it to sales of more than 2.5 million copies. Home to the Top 10 smash “Wicked Game,” the set remains a masterful mood piece that invites you to pour a late-night drink, sit in a dimmed room, and relish Isaak’s elegant albeit raw ruminations on love, relationships, and questionable decisions. 

Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, and featuring the bonus track “Diddley Daddy,” Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set of Heart Shaped World unearths the staggering inner details, saturated tones, and brilliant atmospherics of the crisp production. It brings you up close and personal with Isaak’s spectacular singing — impeccably controlled, tense, brooding, steamy, smoldering, haunted — situated amidst stripped-down backdrops that allow every note to fully bloom and decay. 

While Isaak’s ever-steady baritone remains the anchor, the contributions of his trusty backing band, the aptly named Silvertone, come across with just as much cool, command, and realism. The indispensable playing of guitarist James Calvin Wilsey particularly emerges with superb clarity and dimensionality. The character of his 1965 Fender Stratocaster, shivering twang of his spring-coiled fills, and his signature use of reverb, delay, and vibrato seamlessly match Isaak's patient deliveries and the band’s unhurried rhythms. Experienced on UD1S with ultra-black backgrounds and a nearly invisible noise floor, Heart Shaped World is in every regard a demonstration disc. 

Format / Box Set
Released / 09/25/2026
Catalogue / LMFUD-1S075
Barcode / 821797207522
Artist / Chris Isaak
Label / Mobile Fidelity
Genre / Pop / Rock