Music / V

V is LVCRFT’s fifth album: 12 new future Halloween classics and a love story told from beyond the grave.

It starts with a found letter. Samuel St. Skelevoie, better known as Skeleton Sam, has lost his one true love, Seraphina, and he needs your help to free her. “I’ve been frantically working to free my one true love… Please, I beg you, find the right notes.” The album’s songs are built on “found audio” and lore, and those notes are revealed on the album itself.

From the opening Everyday Is Halloween, V follows Sam’s desperate quest through Bad Witches, Purgatory with Monte Revolta, Vendetta, Late Night Rider and Seraphina’s own song. The Remains guest, and Burnin’, Sound Of Running, Never Be Alone and Feeling Like Halloween round out a record that works as well at a costume party as it does on a midnight drive.

And Fare Thee Well isn’t just the closing song. It’s deep lore: the actual recording of Seraphina singing her final song when she disappeared.

Alongside the album, LVCRFT released a serialized found-footage short film on social media that ran right through Halloween, pulling back the curtain on the LVCRFT universe.