8. John CarpenterLost Themes
What appeals is that sense of dread, the sense of doom. I always hear Carpenter’s music and get the sense of ‘doom in suburbia’. His music exists in that layer of skin just beneath the surface; you always have a sense of something quite unnerving.
I thought Lost Themes – his only original music work – was pretty phenomenal. There’s a sonic palette which is very much where we were at, using heavy guitars and analogue synthesisers with digital sounds. I saw him live a couple of months ago in Dallas, which brought me back to him. Again it reminded me of the emotionality of that heavy music and how a weight can echo in you.
