Singles That Mingle

With Captain Stavros

ANIQO – The Turn

Out Now Via La Double Vie

Feels like a great opener to just about anything so why not the list?

 

Maya Ongaku – Astral Echoes

Nothing Space Music Out August 7 Via Guruguru

Your new, and ours, favourite chill jam.

 

Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys

Lost Weekend Out August 14 Via Dead Oceans

Slips on and off easily. 

 

Sibille Attar – KL+SA

Amor Fati Out September 4 Via PNKSLM

Pop this on and get shit done. Motivational and uplifting vibes. 

 

Holy Motors – Tough Crush

Heaven’s Night Out October 16 Via Wharf Cat Records

It’s been far too long since we’ve heard from this lot and once again they hit the mark.

 

Sam Akpro – Dusty

Out Now Via Anti-

Smooth and seductive, silky groove. 

 

Susanna – A Swallow (live)

Meditations Out Now Via Love

This tune lured us in and kept us there. 

 

Josh Da Costa – 96 Old Girl

New Wave Graveyard Out July 24 Via Stones Throw 

Get ready to put this one on the ‘dim the lights’ playlist.

 

John Carpenter – The Ferryman

Cathedral Out August 7 Via Sacred Bones 

Standard, locked and loaded, Carpenter. 

 

Tamino – Raven

Seamless blending of countless styles yields fruits of unease and we love it. 

 

Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away

There Near Out August 28 Via JagJaguWar

D-Jr, because they are the OGs.

 

7ebra – Magical Thinking

How to Land a Plane Out September 25 Via Pnkslm

Ain’t no thinking about it, this one lands.

 

Hermanos Gutierrez – Los Ojos Del Condor

Los Ojos Del Condor Out September 25 Via Easy Eye Sound

2 boys, 1 egg. 

 

Ebbb – Come Alive

Shallow Hits Out Now Via Ninja Tune

This cut here is tough to pin down but it’ll get a hold of you.

 

 

 

Legendary composer/director John Carpenter has returned with his first non-soundtrack music since 2016’s Lost Themes II. Collaborating again with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, his bandmates and co-composers for the David Gordon Green-directed Halloween films, Carpenter has shared the propulsive new single ‘Skeleton’ and its B-side, the haunting ‘Unclean Spirit’. Both songs are available digitally now and will be released as a deluxe limited-edition 12" with art by Chris Bilheimer on August 28 via Sacred Bones.

The sessions for these songs saw the trio shifting their focus from scoring for the screen and engaging a totally different creative muscle. “It was refreshing to be able to write music that didn’t have to fit to any sort of locked image,” John said. “We also had a specific focus and direction we wanted to follow when working on Halloween, both in terms of mindset and instruments, and being able to return to working without that narrow focus was refreshing. Although working on Halloween didn’t specifically influence any of these new compositions, there is always a honing of craft that must take place when working on a film like Halloween, and our improved skills definitely helped us in writing these songs.”

‘Skeleton’ and ‘Unclean Spirit’ are the first taste of a batch of new music that will eventually yield a Lost Themes III, and with the composers hard at work on the music for Blumhouse’s Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, there is plenty more music to come. Even for the famously prolific John Carpenter, this might be the most fertile creative period of his life.