“Skeleton” and “Unclean Spirit”: Listen to Two Brand New John Carpenter Tracks Right Now! [Video]

The master is back with brand new music.

Kicking off the long Fourth of July weekend proper, John Carpenter has just digitally released two new tracks, Carpenter’s first new non-soundtrack music since 2016’s Lost Themes II!

Collaborating again with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, his bandmates and co-composers for the David Gordon Green-directed Halloween films, Carpenter has shared the propulsive new single “Skeleton” and its B-side, the haunting “Unclean Spirit.” Both songs are available digitally now and will be released as a deluxe limited-edition 12″ with art by Chris Bilheimer on August 28. “The sessions for these songs saw the trio shifting their focus from scoring for the screen and engaging a totally different creative muscle.”

“It was refreshing to be able to write music that didn’t have to fit to any sort of locked image,” John Carpenter said. “We also had a specific focus and direction we wanted to follow when working on Halloween, both in terms of mindset and instruments, and being able to return to working without that narrow focus was refreshing. Although working on Halloween didn’t specifically influence any of these new compositions, there is always a honing of craft that must take place when working on a film like Halloween, and our improved skills definitely helped us in writing these songs.”

“Skeleton” and “Unclean Spirit” are the first taste of a batch of new music that will eventually yield a Lost Themes III, and with the composers hard at work on the music for Blumhouse’s Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, there is plenty more music to come. 

Vinyl variants include:

• Hand-cut “bone records” acetate version limited to 100
• “Blood Red” limited to 2000
• “Skeleton Bones” (SB mailorder exclusive) limited to 500
• “Hemoglobin” (Bandcamp exclusive) limited to 500
• “Blood Splatter” (End of an Ear exclusive) limited to 300
• “X-Ray” (Sacred Bones Record Society exclusive) limited to 150

You can pre-order the vinyl release today. Listen to both new tracks below.

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