Filmmaker David Lynch makes his singer-songwriter debut!
The Acclaimed Director Makes His Singer-Songwriter Debut
David Lynch Sings His Nightmares
Filmmaker David Lynch has made his long-awaited debut as a singer-songwriter. The album, released on November 2nd, is titled "Crazy Clown Time." What will his voice, his guitar, his lyrics depict?
By Tomoya Kumagai (SLOGAN)
Filmmaker David Lynch's new album is generating buzz. An album? Yes, Lynch's latest work isn't a film. "Crazy Clown Time" marks the musical debut of the acclaimed director behind "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," who wrote and performed all the songs himself, playing guitar on the record.
Looking back, his films have always featured a miraculous synergy between music and visuals. Anyone who has seen his movies can recall, for instance, the girl singing from the radiator in "Eraserhead," Isabella Rossellini in "Blue Velvet," Julee Cruise in "Twin Peaks," and Connie Stevens in "Mulholland Drive"... In his cinema, music and image are inextricably linked. The music transforms the nightmarish visuals, blurring the lines between reality and unreality.
Naturally, Lynch's interest in music within his films was far from casual. Not only were the song selections meticulous, but his demands of the soundtrack composers were reportedly quite specific. For Julee Cruise's work, Lynch himself penned all the lyrics.
This "new" work from Lynch is packed to the brim with all the musical sensibilities that have graced his films. It's profoundly romantic, yet distorted, jarring, broken, and tinged with a faint nostalgia. As the title "Crazy Clown Time" suggests, who is crazy – the world, Lynch, or us?
Such questions linger, much like in his films. This is an album that offers a powerfully condensed Lynchian experience.
David Lynch
Born in 1946, he is now 65 years old. Since his debut film "Eraserhead" (1976), he has carved a unique path between cult and mainstream cinema. His latest feature film is "Inland Empire" (2006). He is also known as a painter, with an exhibition held in Osaka, Japan, in 2010. His passion for filmmaking remains undimmed; there are plans to create music videos for all the songs on "Crazy Clown Time."