JOHN CARPENTER GOES INTO THE DARK

The classic imagery of film noir inspires new album Lost Themes IV: Noir.

JM

“The imagery is bold,” ponders Daniel Davies as he recalls how a chance Christmas gift of a book of stills from noir films from the 1940s from John Carpenter’s wife, Sandy, to her husband, came to inspire Lost Themes IV: Noir, which is released via Sacred Bones on May 3. Davies, who has worked with Carpenter and his son Cody across the Lost Themes series, says, “When I’m hanging out with John, we’re always talking about movies and what we think about them – the imagery and how music works in movies. As I was looking through the book, it had such strong images and contrasts and I started asking John which his favourite film noir films were. And then I thought, ‘Why don’t we base an album on his…

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