Chvrches team up with John Carpenter for dream horrorsynth collab

Carpenter and Chvrches swap songs for remix 7″

Synthpop trio Chvrches and classic horror film composer John Carpenter have teamed up for a new split remix single.

On the new two-tracker, Carpenter reinterprets the band’s latest album hit ‘Good Girls’ (taken from their upcoming album Screen Violence). Chvurches return the favour on the B-side, remixing ‘Turning The Bones’, an recent Carpenter track from his last album ‘Lost Themes III’, released earlier this year.

Carpenter’s film score credits include The Thing, Halloween and Escape From New York. The decision to collaborate with Chvrches is a calculated move; their forthcoming album ‘Screen Violence’ (scheduled for release on August 27th) happily continues the band’s recent  dark synthpop sound, naturally drawing on the horror soundtrack tropes Carpenter pioneered.

Discussing the remix, Chvrches’ frontwoman Lauren Mayberry said, “As horror fans, we know that John Carpenter is the godfather and the gold standard so we’re so excited to get to work with him in any capacity. His films and music have been so impactful on us over the years, and without the stories he created I am not sure that the concept of Screen Violence (and female narratives within the album) would exist in the way they do. On every album we get “remixes” but given the themes of this record, we had the idea that maybe we could get a song reimagined by a composer who has worked in that cinematic universe. John was top of our wishlist but we never really thought he’d reply, let alone that he’d send back something better than the original.”

John Carpenter added, “Chvrches reached out to us through our tour manager, asking if we would be interested in remixing one of their songs for their upcoming album. They sent us three or four tracks for us to listen to and decide which one we wanted to remix, and we went from there. We chose the track we did because we connected with it the most and felt it would adapt best to our style. After we finished our remix, we asked them if they could also remix one of our songs in return, and they thought it was a great idea.”

‘Good Girls / Turning The Bones’ is now available digitally, and will also be available on split 7” vinyl on December 10