Lost Themes

Sacred Bones already have a working relationship with one iconic director/composer, and now, they've announced plans to release an album by another. Lost Themes is the debut non-soundtrack album from horror icon John Carpenter. It's out February 3. Listen to "Vortex" above, or if you'd prefer, you can hear it set to clips from Carpenter's films. Carpenter's most recognizable music, arguably, comes from his first three Halloween movies. He also provided the music for Dark Star, The Fog, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York, and most importantly, the 1988 Roddy Piper-starring sci-fi classic They Live. He said of the album: "Lost Themes was all about having fun. It can be both great and bad to score over images, which is what I’m used to. Here there were no pressures. No actors asking me what they’re supposed to do. No crew waiting. No cutting room to go to. No release pending. It’s just fun. And I couldn’t have a better set-up at my house, where I depended on (collaborators) Cody (Carpenter, of the band Ludrium) and Daniel (Davies, who scored I, Frankenstein) to bring me ideas as we began improvising. The plan was to make my music more complete and fuller, because we had unlimited tracks. I wasn’t dealing with just analogue anymore. It’s a brand new world. And there was nothing in any of our heads when we started other than to make it moody."