Music
‘Don’t Breathe’ Score Coming to Vinyl From Invada
While Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe was exhilarating in countless ways, I think it would be criminally remiss to not give a lot of credit to composer Roque Baños‘ incredible score. Looking at how everything was put together reveals that deep thought and ingenuity went into creating something deeply unsettling and just as effective as Baños’ previous work with Alvarez on Evil Dead.
The folk over at Blumhouse revealed that the score will be coming to CD and vinyl later this year, with Lakeshore tackling a CD release and Invada Records pushing the album out on vinyl just in time for Halloween. Lakeshore’s CD will be coming out October 14th while Invada’s vinyl, which will come on 2xLP red/orange swirl, will ship Halloween weekend as a mail order exclusive. A retail version of the vinyl, which will be pressed on 2xLP orange wax, will come out November 25th.
“Three teens who get away with perfectly planned home robberies have set their sights on one last payout that will get them out of crime forever. Their target: a reclusive blind man with millions of dollars in hiding. But as soon as they break into his home, the tables are turned and they find themselves trapped and fighting for survival against a psychopath with secrets of his own.”
Directed by Fede Alvarez, who co-wrote the film with Rodo Sayagues, Don’t Breathe stars Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, and Stephen Lang.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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