Mood Music
This album has had a 13 year gestation – and that seems a
dangerous term to use in the context of David Lynch as producer: as if he has slowly
nurtured a monstrous musical creation to now unleash upon us. Whilst it has
Lynch’s trademark swaths of moody ambient chords and noise, it is, with singer
Chrystal Bell, a lush and immediately accessible sound. Bell has a fulsome
voice, augmented by echo on tracks like Swing
With Me which is a slow brooding blues, and opener This Train is choo-chooed in strongly to set the scene for the
album’s panoramic vocal and instrumental layering. All the songs are written by Lynch and sung by
long-time collaborator Bell who first met up with the Hollywood maverick in
1998, aged 20. For me, it is more mood
music than an exploration of songcraft, and that brooding methodical beat of
most to make its whole will require a similar listening inclination, whatever
you hear in the moods being hammered home in the repetitions and layerings.
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