Eric Church announces ‘Heart & Soul’ vinyl box sets

New sets available this summer

Eric Church and Universal Music Group are prepping to release all three of last year’s Heart & Soul albums into two limited edition vinyl box sets. Each album has been pressed on limited edition splatter colored 180-gram vinyl for inclusion. This gives non fan club members a chance to purchase the Church Choir exclusive middle album, &, for the first time in the set as well as on CD, black vinyl and digital, separately on August 19th.

The standard box ships on June 10th and includes one of three posters designed exclusively for the set. The standard set comes in a sleeve box that has a unique and bold design of the Eric Church Eagles representing the three albums.

“I’ve always been intrigued when a song is born in a writer room – there is a magic that happens there,” shares Church of the unique process that went into creating the triple album when first announcing the project. “I wanted to put that in the studio form. So, every day, we would write a song in the morning and we would record the song that night… The interesting thing about this process is that Jay kept asking me the last three or four days, ‘Are we done?’ and at that time I didn’t know what the project was. I kept saying ‘God, this is going to be really hard. There’s a lot here. Is this a double album? And if it’s a double album, how do we leave out these five or six songs?’ I am the hardest critic on making sure every song deserves to be on the record, and I beat this thing to death going ‘this can’t be that good.’ But it was just a special, special time and a special, special project that I think will be among our best.”

The deluxe box ships August 5th and is made for “only the biggest of Eric Church fans.” Handcrafted and designed with care, the special box unfolds to reveal a myriad of limited edition items only available in the set. All three albums are pressed on limited edition splattered color vinyl with three foil-printed posters, four exclusive vinyl record coasters with case, limited edition vinyl record brush, special edition vinyl slipmat with zoetrope design that gives listeners a one-of-a-kind visual experience while it spins, hemp tote bag with eagle design, and extended liner book with lyrics and unreleased photos.

The first 500 copies of the deluxe box will contain a signed note from Church.

Church Choir fan club members have exclusive access 24 hours before they go on sale to the general public. The standard box runs $89.99 while the deluxe runs $349.99.

Buddy Iahn
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