The new vinyl reissue from Milan Records highlights the “sonic architecture” of Dr. Shoji Yamashiro and Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s intense and immersive suite of music. Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 animated film Akira is, by and large, considered to be among the greatest animated films ever made. Set in the year 2019, in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo populated by marauding motorcycle gangs, shadowy paramilitary