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WYTCH FINGER Channels Classic Horror Soundtracks With Debut Concept EP ‘The Dance’
Listening to Wytch Finger feels like you’re watching a cult horror film straight out of the late 70s. Channeling bits of your favorite era horror soundtracks like Suspiria or Assault on Precinct 13, combined with a layer of authentic sound effects, Wytch Finger uses sound and music to tell a story wrapped in a retro horror soundscape.
The duo’s debut EP The Dance is streaming now on Spotify and Apple Music, and a limited release with interstitials featuring foley sound effects and immersive soundscapes is coming later this year on vinyl and cassette.
A secretive cult abducts the perfect vessel for the return of their idol, and through a bygone ceremony sacrifice her and themselves to be reborn as an undead army. An ancient evil has returned and the celebration has begun.
The Dance Track Listing
I The Offering
II The Transformation
III The Arrival
IV The Dance
V The Slaughter
Original album art created by Andrew Tremblay. Find Witch Finger on Instagram
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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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