36 Seasons (10th Anniversary Edition) vinyl

Ghostface Killah's 36 Seasons, first released in 2014, plays out like a gritty graphic novel; we follow Ghostface's maskless alter-ego Tony Starks as he returns to Staten Island after nine years in solitary. Expecting to reunite with his old life, he instead finds his community in disarray, friends turned enemies and betrayal lurking around every corner. So, fuelled by revenge and a broken heart, Starks becomes a reluctant antihero, navigating a grave landscape of corruption, street politics and lost love. The album unfolds over soul-drenched production from The Revelations, creating a cinematic backdrop for the narrative's descent into movie violence and moral compromise. This reissue through Salvation keeps true to the album's original totting of 14 tracks, eschewing the extra ten on the deluxe edition.