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 Record

in Audiophile Sound: Mobile Fidelity's

Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with

Superb Clarity, Detail, and Control

There was nothing in contemporary music like Chris Isaak's Heart

Shaped World when it hit in June 1989. More than three decades

later, the singer-songwriter's third album still sounds unique. Home

to the Top 10 smash "Wicked Game," the brooding set remains a

masterful mood piece that invites you to pour a late-night drink and

relish Isaak's elegant albeit raw ruminations on love, relationships,

and questionable decisions. For all the melodrama and sadness at

hand, Isaak's baritone dives deep underneath emotional surfaces.

He mines subtleties that go beyond heartbreak and anguish, and

occasionally suggest frustration, menace, and anger. The unhurried

contributions of his backing band, anchored by the brilliant playing

of guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, seamlessly match his patient

deliveries and cool command.

Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LPstyle gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid

SACD presents Heart Shaped World in audiophile quality. It unearths

the staggering inner details, saturated tones, and extraordinary

atmospherics of the crisp production. And it brings you up close

and personal with Isaak's singing - impeccably controlled, tense,

brooding, steamy, smoldering, haunted - situated amidst strippeddown backdrops that allow notes to fully bloom and decay. The

record's lonesome temperaments and pensive themes have never

been more alluring on disc. As Isaak croons on the title track:

"Trouble going down." Indeed.