Music

Brandon Flowers’ “Can’t Deny My Love” Video Is All Sorts Of Satanic Creepy

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9 years ago

March 31, 2015

UK pop songwriter Brandon Flowers has released a great music video for his super catchy song “Can’t Deny My Love” and it’ll appeal to fans of classic creepy stories. The video, which stars Evan Rachel Wood and Richard Butler (The Psychedelic Furs), is basically a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Young Goodman Brown”, with Flowers as the main character.

This video shows Flowers leaving his wife (Wood) and venturing into the dark night on some strange journey. As he travels, he runs across an old man (Butler) who offers him a serpent-shaped staff, which is refused. He continues on and runs across a Satanic ritual, whereupon he sees his wife as the main focus of the rite. She floats in the air and he finds himself cornered only to suddenly wake up, thinking that everything is a dream. However…is it?

“Can’t Deny My Love” comes from Flowers’ upcoming album The Desired Effect, which comes out on May 18th.

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

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…