Soundtrack - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is a soundtrack album for the Marvel Studios movie of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, released in April 2017 via Marvel and Hollywood Records.

Set to the all-new sonic backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos.

The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill's true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan-favourite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes' aid as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is written and directed by James Gunn and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, featuring Vin Diesel as Baby Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Tommy Flanagan, Laura Haddock, with Sylvester Stallone, and Kurt Russell. Kevin Feige is producing, and Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Jonathan Schwartz, Nikolas Korda and Stan Lee are the executive producers.

The soundtrack album contains a selection of songs chosen by James Gunn that would suit the story of the film narrative. One of the more obscure songs chosen was “Lake Shore Drive” by Aliota Haynes Jeremiah, a regional hit in the Midwest where Gunn grew up. His motivation was to include it in the soundtrack and rescue it from historical oblivion. Gunn has stated that the ELO opening track “Mr. Blue Sky” was "the perfect song to start the movie because it's really joyous, but there's a really dark underpinning to it," and felt it would go well with "the most hugely insane shot I've ever done".

Gunn has also stated that Fleetwood Mac’s "The Chain" and Looking Glass’ "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" were the two songs that were "the most deeply embedded into the fibres of the film”.

"Guardians Inferno" is an original song for the film, co-written by Gunn and score composer Tyler Bates, "meant as a sort of Guardians take on Meco's disco Star Wars theme, featuring David Hasselhoff.

Tyler Bates returned to score the film and as with Guardians of the Galaxy, Bates wrote some of the score first so that Gunn could film to the music, as opposed to Bates scoring to the film. Recording for the score began in January 2017 at Abbey Road Studios.

This film score and the Awesome Mix Volume 2 were released separately in April 2017. Both albums were released together as a combined vinyl package in August 2017 (this release).

The album peaked at #4 on the US Billboard 200 and #2 on the Australian ARIA Albums charts.

This deluxe edition double album 2LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in Europe via Hollywood Records.