#Kim petras turn off the lights full

This is one of the most exciting projects of the year and a future cult classic for any horror enthusiast.

It’s eclectic and eerie, each track a sense of deja vu for films you may have never even seen due to it’s understanding of tropes and grasp on how popular horror culture permeates mainstream media. It plants itself directly in the synth heavy era of the late seventies, with anchors further ahead with its techno inspiration and direct references to the films of the nineties. There’s even a feature on the title track from Mistress of the Dark herself Elvira, a cult presenter of the eighties which solidifies Kim’s meta-understanding of her own kitsch despite Elvira’s height of popularity being far before her own time.ĭespite all of this, the project is still one-hundred percent a pop album which refuses to feign the orchestral whimsy of Poltergiest or the strings from Psycho even in name of it’s Halloween theme. There’s also reason to suspect that Tubular Bells, the Excorcist’s main theme, inspired a lot of the main synth leads that run throughout a majority of the tracks. Though a lot of the synth heavy tracks are indicative of John Caprenter’s classic score Halloween it seems to draw just as much from Disasterpeace’s 2014 soundtrack for It Follows – with o m e n lifting chords straight from the album’s main theme, Title. Petras’ Germanic hailing is is undoubtedly celebrated in it’s dedication to the eerie era of 1990s industrial techno littered throughout, mixing ambience with harsh synths and muffled voiceover – seen best on In The Next Life, where she opts to do an entire verse in German.

There’s a truly modern sensibility to her work, an understanding of classic horror structures and pop music not yet seen mixed by modern artists. TURN OFF THE LIGHT seems to wear its influence on its sleeve, mixing the virtues of classic John Carpenter synthesiser soundtracks with echoes of Gesaffelstein and classic German techno reminiscent of Klangwerk or Enemies Of Carlotta F.O.C. It’s the perfect credits song to such a harsh project from the new princess of bubblegum pop. The album follows a winding structure of sinister instrumental tracks followed by traditional pop songs with a ghoulish twist, culminating in Everybody Dies, a track softer than the rest allowing a breath from the listener until they decide to experience it all over again.

Purgatory throws the listener headfirst into Kim’s forty-nine minute faux-horror soundtrack, teasing lyrical composure only to drop you into a techno spiral leading into track two with razor precision. The new project consists of seventeen tracks in which seven of them feature little to no vocal appearances by Petras herself. 1, an EP chock-full of haunting Halloween-themed music to help fans ring in All Hallows Eve.

#Kim petras turn off the lights full

A year later, we now have the full project, and it’s everything volume one strived to be. But last October, pop star Kim Petras took a left turn when she released Turn Off the Light, Vol. INSTRUMENTAL GODDESS Insanity throughout the entire album and I love it Wayyyyy ahead of its time, let’s be real STREAMING throughout Halloween. In October of 2018, Kim Petras released her Halloween EP TURN OFF THE LIGHT, VOL 1 to critical acclaim.