Listen to director John Carpenter’s new horror album Lost Themes

Late last year, legendary filmmaker John Carpenter — a director whose style helped define horror in the ‘70s and ‘80s — announced that, instead of a new movie, he was crafting a debut album with Sacred Bones Records. Lost Themes, due out on February 3rd, is full of unheard compositions that would fit right in with the scores from Halloween and Escape from New York. Now, a week before release, you can stream the entire record over at NPR.

Lost Themes is very much in line with the rest of Carpenter’s oeuvre, with each track offering up the same moody, sinister synths the director perfected in his heyday. Here, though, you can only imagine the kind of thrillers each composition might accompany. According to NPR, Carpenter collaborated with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies on the album. Though each track was improvised, there’s a polish to each track that gives you the sense that this is really a style that has been honed for decades. (No matter how old-school the themes sound.) Listen to the new track “Night” below and pre-order the album on Amazon.