LVCRFT is back with their third album of ghoulish bops, appropriately titled “The Return,” which is set to drop on Friday, October 1, just in time for the spooky season. With 13 brand-new original songs, partnerships with Spirit Halloween, SiriusXM, and Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween, LVCRFT has cemented itself as the go-to-musical coven for all things spooky and horror-pop music-related.
LVCRFT is the sinister spawn of spooky-obsessed hitmakers responsible for crafting iconic records for the likes of Beyoncé, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Mark Ronson, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, and more. When they aren’t writing smashes for the living, they are creating a year-round supply of hook-filled ghoulish pop bops to shake and wake the dead and undead alike.
With their mantra ‘Spooky Never Sleeps,’ their music showcases the power of spooky to lift the spirits all year long.
Their 2019 debut album, “This Is Halloween Volume 1,” was touted by GQ as “a clear ancestor of iconic Halloween hits like ‘The Monster Mash’ & ‘Thriller!'” and Paper Magazine said of their 2020 album, “The Sequel,” “This musical coven of Hitmakers wrote a perfect Halloween album.” The excitement around the project has yielded paranormal partnerships with Tik Tok, Splice, Amazon, Netflix, and most notably for the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” Season 3, “Straight To Hell,” Adam Sandler’s “Hubie Halloween,” and Freeform, crafting the theme song to the network’s annual 31 Nights of Halloween.
On 2021’s “The Return,” LVCRFT’s MNDR (Deepkutz), Evan Bogart (Lil Punkin), Bonnie McKee (Evil McQueen), Sarah Barrios (Scary Ana Grande), Trevis Romell (DejaVudu), Peter Wade (Norman Crates), and Justin Gray (Count Trackula), are joined this year by new, and familiar, paranormal players and superstars in their own right including the world-renowned pop-artist Jake Miller (Jake Killer), chart-topping Dua Lipa-songstress Sarah Hudson (Olivia Demon Spawn), multi-platinum singer/songwriter J Hart (Slay Hart), Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet-fame (Soylent Greenwald), YouTube & AGT-sensation Madilyn Bailey (Madame Bizarre), pop-influencer Kailee Morgue (Kailee Morgue), rising-star
Xavier Goodman (X-Man), actor & performer Dexter Darden (Dr. Dexter Funkenstein), and The Gatekeeper, Frukwan, from the legendary Wu-Tang-adjacent horror-rap outfit, The Gravediggaz, among others.
Check out the album’s tracklist below:
- Every Night (feat. Jake Killer, Slay Heart & Olivia Demon Spawn)
- Lookin 4 Trouble
- Howl-O-Ween
- Paranoid (feat. Jake Killer)
- Hot As Hell (feat. Dr. Dexter Funkenstein PhD)
- Sunburn (feat. X-Man)
- Devilish Ways
- Dead Don’t Die
- Spellbound (feat. Madame Bizarre)
- Bump in the Night (feat. Soylent Greenwalkd)
- Gravedigga (feat. The Gatekeeper of The Gravediggaz)
- Resurrection
- Soul Sucker (feat. Kailee Morgue)
This year’s campaign also boasts a national partnership with Spirit Halloween stores, which includes exclusive access to hear the new album playing in stores ahead of its release, and the filming of the first official LVCRFT music video, shot in partnership with Spirit inside one of their stores. Additionally, LVCRFT has again collaborated with Freeform to provide the music for their annual 31 Nights of Halloween programming. Members of LVCRFT will also be co-hosting Volume West on SiriusXM Volume every Monday night in October from 5 pm – 6 pm PST, discussing all things spooky music. All of this, of course, will be in addition to LVCRFT’s annual LiveScream events on YouTube, animated lyric videos and visualizer, and one killer album-release party in partnership with iconic-LA immersive theatre outfit JFI Productions (CREEP, The Willows, and Night Fever).
For more spooky fun and to keep up with all things LVCRFT, be sure to check out https://www.lvcrft.net or follow LVCRFT on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.
