Two soundtrack albums were released from the 2007 film Zodiac. 　　The first album, Zodiac: Songs from the Motion Picture, was released by Lakeshore Records on February 27, 2007 and features various popular music pertaining to the time periods covered in the film. 　　The second album, Zodiac: Original Motion Picture Score, was released by Varèse Sarabande on March 13, 2007 and features the music of David Shire. 　　Originally the film's director, David Fincher, envisioned the film’s soundtrack to be composed of 40 cues of vintage music spanning the nearly three decades of the Zodiac story. However, the director felt that an original score was also needed "to take the emotional part of the film to another level," according to the film's sound designer and longtime collaborator Ren Klyce.