Listen to a new John Carpenter track from his debut solo album Lost Themes!

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

This is like catnip to any horror movie fan.

The legendary John Carpenter has announced his debut solo album, “Lost Themes,” will be out February 3rd on Sacred Bones Records. In anticipation of his debut release, Carpenter shares a new track “Vortex,” which you can listen to below.

If you want to check out the video with a unique montage of clips from different Carpenter films, head over to Sacred Bones Records.

Here’s what Carpenter had to say about Lost Themes:

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.”

Here’s another early preview of the album: the full track list:

1. Vortex
2. Obsidian
3. Fallen
4. Domain
5. Mystery
6. Abyss
7. Wraith
8. Purgatory
9. Night

Keep your ears open in February, when “Lost Themes” hits!