Published Feb 03, 2021
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Continuing his late-career resurgence as a creative musical force, famed horror director/composer John Carpenter has released his third album of free-standing original music,
Lost Themes III: Alive After Death. A collection of original scores for films that don t actually exist, the series offers the fun of imagining all the standard horror imagery from the Carpenter-verse its music could accompany: moonlit suburban streets awash in fog, creepy graveyards, even the signature Albertus typeface Carpenter used for all his credits a sort of free-associative fugue of 80s horror tropes (developed and codified to no small degree by Carpenter himself of course). While this third entry could be classified as largely more of the same, there s enough freshness here to warrant a closer look, especially if you re already a fan of the project.