John Carpenter’s LOST THEMES III: ALIVE AFTER DEATH Hits February 2021
Mike Sprague
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Halloween director John Carpenter returns with his first album of non-soundtrack music in nearly five years, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death on February 5, 2021.
Carpenter is joined by son Cody Carpenter on synthesizer and godson Daniel Davies on guitar. Papa Carpenter says: “We begin with a theme, a bass line, a pad, something that sounds good and will lead us to the next layer. We then just keep adding on from there. We understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses, how to communicate without words, and the process is easier now than it was in the beginning. We’ve matured.”
Here’s an official bit from Sacred Bones: John called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.” On Alive After Death, those movies are even more vivid. The song titles here are among his most evocative, too. Lead single “Weeping Ghost” thrillingly conjures its title figure in a wash of synthesizer, making the listener’s neck hairs stand on end as the aural specter stalks the halls of a dilapidated mansion. The pulsing “The Dead Walk” makes the zombie apocalypse feel like a rave. The gloomy, atmospheric closing track “Carpathian Darkness” casts shadow on the album with its strikingly effective minimal piano and splashes of twinkling synth. Each of the ten songs is a universe unto itself.
The album is available to pre-order HERE and HERE.
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