White vinyl edition. Gatefold cover with extensive liner notes. A prog band that topped the Italian singles chart. A horror soundtrack that sold over a million copies and sat in the charts for a full year. A group of Roman session musicians who, almost by accident, invented a new language for cinema. Goblin's story is full of contradictions, and the 7-inch single - that most concise, most commercial of formats - turns out to be the sharpest lens through which to view them all.
The Singles Collection 1975-1979 gathers, for the first time ever on a single vinyl, every 45rpm release from Goblin's golden era. From the explosive debut of "Profondo Rosso" to the elusive "Amo Non Amo," these twelve tracks chart the full arc of a band that moved from instant chart phenomenon to the outer reaches of progressive experimentation in just four years - all while remaining tethered to the demands of the screen.
It begins, as it must, with "Profondo Rosso" and "Death Dies" - the two sides of the single that changed everything. When Dario Argento's giallo hit Italian cinemas in March 1975, the main theme became an inescapable presence on radio and television, climbing to number one and staying on the charts for fifty-two weeks. What made it so potent was the tension between accessibility and unease: that cycling keyboard figure, ominous and danceable at once, with Claudio Simonetti's rippling arpeggios locking into Agostino Marangolo's metronomic pulse. It was pop music that made your skin crawl. Nothing quite like it had existed before.
From there, the collection traces every subsequent move. "Roller" and "Snip Snap," drawn from the 1976 album of the same name - Goblin's sole record untethered from any film - reveal a band stretching toward pure progressive composition, intricate and muscular. The two parts of "Chi?", composed as a television theme for RAI, show them condensing their ideas into tight, punchy formats without losing an ounce of intensity. Then comes "Suspiria" and "Blind Concert," from the 1977 Argento collaboration that remains one of the most radical gestures in soundtrack history: those layered, incantatory vocal textures, the celesta, the heavy breathing - sound as possession, music that doesn't accompany horror so much as become it.
The later singles map a band in restless motion. "Un Ragazzo D'Argento" and "Opera Magnifica," from the conceptual Il Fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark, push toward a more visionary, self-contained progressive language. "Yell," originally composed for the RAI television series Sette Storie Per Non Dormire, fuses rock energy with an electronic pulse that anticipates the synth-driven Italian sounds of the early 1980s. And "Amo Non Amo" and "Funky Top" close the circle with a late-period score that captures the group at its most fluid and unpredictable - lesser known, but no less compelling.
Heard in sequence, what emerges is not just a compilation but a portrait of creative velocity. In four years, Goblin moved from the propulsive rock-funk hybrids of Profondo Rosso through the ceremonial darkness of Suspiria to the conceptual ambitions of Bagarozzo Mark - a trajectory that most bands would need a decade to complete. The 7-inch format forced them to distill each phase into its most concentrated form. These are not album tracks edited down. They are the essential gestures, the calling cards, the moments where Goblin met the public ear.
White vinyl edition. Gatefold cover with extensive liner notes. The complete singles of the most singular band in Italian music, restored to the format that first carried them into the world.
