There are just a few weeks left until 2023 ends and on Halloween weekend, an increasingly popular Nordic festival around the world, none other than Duran Duran took the opportunity to have fun and create the best soundtrack for the occasion: their 16th album, Danse Macabre.

The origins of the album are as fun as the repertoire of covers. In 2022, Duran Duran played a Halloween show in Las Vegas and selected classics that took on a new look by adjusting to the British group’s characteristic sound, bringing back the 1980s vibe so typical of them. New and famous songs from artists such as the Rolling Stones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Billie Eilish, and Talking Heads, among others, parade.

The result pleased critics and it’s fun to have Duran Duran working on something as popular as Halloween. The show visually accompanies the proposal and even without having seen it live, listening to the CD, it is possible to understand the group’s vision. The shows have been a party, almost a farewell to former guitarist Andy Taylor, who appears on some tracks in Danse Macabre and who has stage 4 prostate cancer. This nostalgia is present in the covers and new songs, making the album a success among the fans.

Although the new Black Moonlight was one of the highlights, I like the covers even more Bury a Friend‘s version is on par with the original by Billie and Spellbound, one of my favorites considering I’m a mega-fan of Siouxsie, I don’t dislike it. But having a renewed soundtrack for Halloween is always fun, time to update the playlist, right?

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