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Every October the same songs come back around. They are fun, they are familiar, and by the third party of the season most people could sing them in their sleep. This year there is a darker option on the table. 1031, the newly re-edited and remastered album from Grapefruit Sound Lab, the electronic music project of award-winning music editor, composer and producer Robert Anthoyne Chrétien Cotnoir, is built for listeners who want their Halloween to feel a little more dangerous.
Released October 1, 2026, under Cotnoir’s producer name RACC, the six-track album mixes darkwave, gothic influences, electronic dance music and cinematic storytelling. There is nothing cute about it. Rather than leaning on costumes and kitsch, Cotnoir digs into the psychology underneath the holiday: the tension, the forbidden wants, the strange encounters and, finally, the hope of coming out the other side.
Picture the settings this music suits. A drive through an empty town after midnight. A carnival that should have closed hours ago. The opening credits of a supernatural thriller just before the first scream. 1031 is designed to make ordinary surroundings feel charged, which makes it equally at home on headphones during a late walk, playing under a costume party that wants some real atmosphere, or setting the tone for a horror movie marathon.
The album’s six tracks each explore a different side of human behavior. “Big Top Carousel” deals in enticement, “Pazuzu” in transgression, “Asylum” in castigation, “Horseman (RACC Mix)” in indulgence, and “Good Times Roll,” featuring Cajun Bob, in temptation. The closing track, “All Souls,” brings salvation, giving the night a resolution most Halloween playlists never bother with. Played start to finish, it feels like a story told in six chapters.
That storytelling instinct comes from serious credentials. Cotnoir has twice won the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing, and his television work includes Gossip Girl, Damages, Medium, Smash, Quantico, Instinct, Borgia and Netflix’s The Diplomat. Years spent shaping how music guides an audience through a scene have given him a precise sense of how a single pulse, an unexpected shift in key or a carefully built rhythm can signal danger before anything appears on screen. On 1031, those instincts are the whole show.
He brings a theatrical sensibility as well, with an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a bachelor’s degree in Theatre from SUNY Binghamton. And his ear is wide open: Cotnoir counts classic rock, classical composition, electro, freestyle, house and synth-pop among his influences. That mix is why 1031 can move from cinematic menace to a beat that wants to move a dance floor without losing its grip.
In a season that often settles for the obvious, Grapefruit Sound Lab offers something with real intent behind it. 1031 does not just decorate Halloween; it asks why people keep coming back to fear, danger and the supernatural every year, and it lets the music make the case. Five days out from October 31, there is still time to swap the usual playlist for something with teeth. 1031 is available now.
Stream Grapefruit Sound Lab’s 1031 Below:
Grapefruit Sound Lab – 1031 (HALLOWEEN album re-edit/ re-master/ re-release, out 10/1/26)
