{"product_id":"its-alright-i-see-rainbows","title":"It's Alright (I See Rainbows)","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER: Orders will begin shipping on or around the release date September 18\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note that vinyl copies contain the original track listing of 'It's Alright (I See Rainbows),' and the newly expanded CD includes two additional bonus tracks: \" Forgive Me My Love,\" and \"Dream Love (Live in Budapest)\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eContinuing in its series of Yoko Ono reissues, Secretly Canadian has announced that Ono’s seminal 1982 album \u003cem\u003eIt’s Alright (I See Rainbows)\u003c\/em\u003e will be released August 28, 2026, in expanded CD and digital versions, and on vinyl for the first time in more than forty years, with expanded and enhanced artwork. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eInfluenced equally by 1960s girl group vocals and 1980s synthesizer experimentation, \u003cem\u003eIt's Alright (I See Rainbows)\u003c\/em\u003e is an album of “adventurous… lush… committed and convincing avant-gardism” (Rolling Stone). As Ono said in her 1992 \u003cem\u003eOnobox\u003c\/em\u003e liner notes, “It was ’82 and it seemed as though I was finally in sync with the world.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eVacillating from a widow’s never-truly-over grief, to the necessary uplift for an artist and mother to continue her life’s missions, tracks like “Loneliness” and “Spec of Dust” make way for poptimism via “Let the Tears Dry,” and title track “It’s Alright.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eAs Ono said of the album in 1983, “It’s like my diary that I went through… and I’m just saying, hey, I’ve got the same kind of emotions that you’ve probably got too, and here I am saying hello… Around December 8th or whatever, I was feeling really heavy and feeling sort of down, you know… and then, side two, it’s all right… It was Sean [Lennon] who says, ‘Wake up, wake up, mommy.’ Like an angel that came and said, ‘Wake up!’… Wake up and dream love, and let the tears dry and I see rainbows. And sort of I’m saying all that. In result of Sean waking me up, see?”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eLennon, speaking of his mother in a more recent interview with NPR in 2025, “She would say that energy is just energy, so you can turn it into anything you like. And she always said that she would take that negative energy and turn it into something productive and creative… It never stopped her from creating and putting herself out there, and I really think that it paid off… You never know how long it'll take for people to appreciate you if you just kind of hang on and don't give up.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eForty-plus years on, we couldn’t agree more.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yoko Ono","offers":[{"title":"LP (White Vinyl)","offer_id":47938256175267,"sku":"SC287lp-C1","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":47938256142499,"sku":"SC287lp","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":47938256208035,"sku":"SC287cd","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/6703\/2483\/files\/sc287.yokoono.itsalright.mock.lp.jpg?v=1785411054","url":"https:\/\/secretlystore.com\/products\/its-alright-i-see-rainbows","provider":"Secretly Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}