Yoko Ono- Season Of Glass PREORDER OUT 7/17

This is a preorder. Albums can be picked up or will be mailed out upon street date. Order by 7/3/26 to get by 7/17/26.

Label: Secretly Canadian

Originally released 1981

To mark the 45th anniversary of its release, Secretly Canadian has announced that Ono’s seminal 1981 album Season of Glass will be released July 2026, in expanded CD and digital versions, and on vinyl for the first time in more than forty-five years, with expanded and enhanced artwork. Hit single “Walking on Thin Ice” is now available to stream everywhere for the first time. One of Pitchfork’s Top 200 albums of the 1980s, Season of Glass was released in June 1981, just seven months after the senseless murder of Ono’s husband and creative partner, John Lennon. Full of songs about love, loss, anger and fear, the album reflected Ono’s experience in stark detail, creating almost a companion piece to Ono and Lennon’s 1970 Plastic Ono Band “primal scream” albums. “Season of Glass was really just being me, I suppose,” Ono told Newsweek in 1982. “Sort of, it was like a primal scream in a way; you know, something happened in my life, and I just had to say it. And I think it was therapeutic for me more than anything else. And I was pretty honest, I suppose.” Ono’s fifth studio album, Season of Glass was also the artist’s most commercially successful to date, cracking the Top 50 on Billboard’s Album Chart, but it was not without controversy. The album’s cover was a photograph of Lennon’s blood-soaked glasses, just as they were returned to Ono from Roosevelt Hospital after his murder. Though David Geffen, the head of Geffen Records, who had released Ono and Lennon’s Double Fantasy in November 1980, and released the original version of Season of Glass, implored Ono to change the cover, Ono stood her ground. “The record company called me and said the record shops would not stock the record unless I changed the cover,” Ono wrote in the liner notes to ONOBOX. “I didn’t understand it. Why? They said it was in bad taste. I felt like a person soaked in blood coming into a living room full of people and reporting that my husband was dead, his body was taken away, and the pair of glasses were the only thing I had managed to salvage – and people looking at me saying it was in bad taste to show the glasses to them.” “I’m not changing the cover,” Ono recalled telling Geffen. “This is what John is now.”

Track listing:

1. Goodbye Sadness 
   
2. Mindweaver 
   
3. Even When You're Far Away 
   
4. Nobody Sees Me Like You Do
   
5. Turn of the Wheel 
   
6. Dogtown 
   
7. Silver Horse 
   
8. I Don't Know Why 
   
9. Extension 33 
   
10. No, No, No 
    
11. Will You Touch Me 
    
12. She Gets Down on Her Knees 
    
13. Toyboat 
    
14. Mother of the Universe
    
15. Walking on Thin Ice
    
16. I Don’t Know Why (demo) 
    
17. Dogtown (alternate version)