David Lynch shares details of new project – revealing new single and album with Chrystabell
David Lynch has shared details of his latest project – confirming that he will be releasing a new album called ‘Cellophane Memories’ with Chrystabell. Check out the lead single ‘Sublime Eternal Love’ below.
Revealed this afternoon (June 5), the confirmation of the new album comes following the Twins Peaks co-writer informing fans that he had a new venture that he was ready to announce.
He first teased the project back in May, when he took to X/Twitter to share his first post on social media since December 2022. “Ladies and gentleman, something is coming along….for you to see and hear,” Lynch said in a 22-second video. “And it will be coming along on June 5.”
Fans of the rebooted ’90s television series Twin Peaks began speculating that another season of the mystery drama could be on the horizon. The original series ran for two seasons from 1990-1991, and the reboot aired in 2017.
Now, Lynch has revealed that the project is actually a new album that he has created alongside Chrystabell. Titled ‘Cellophane Memories’ it is set for release on August 2 via Sacred Bones Records. Pre-order it here.
To celebrate the announcement, the two have also dropped the lead single from the LP, ‘Sublime Eternal Love’, as well as the Lynch-directed music video.
The song is somewhat of a spiritual ballad, and sees Chrystabell’s ethereal vocals intertwine with the synth organs and gentle rhythm. “He fell down crying…calling out he cried…cried for understanding…and the noise turned to music,” the vocalist is heard singing in the track, while the visual accompaniment shows her depicted as three different versions of herself, as each harmonises.
Check it out, as well as Lynch’s powerful, strobe light-inspired music video.
As for the album itself, the project comes following the filmmaker’s extensive experience in the music industry, and was made after he felt inspired to create a new body of work after a nighttime walk through a forest, where he witnessed a “bright light” above the trees.
This inspiration from nature and the wider world is something that both he and Chrystabell held at the core of the songwriting process, and many of the tracks on the LP are set in forests, mountain peaks, swimming holes, crepuscular highways and darkened bedrooms.
“These are the abodes of both loneliness and romance, the sorts of sublime landscapes where people often travel alone in search of a wayward lover,” reads a press release. “But they are also shapeless atmospheres—of colour, weather and breath: blue and white skies, red roses, darkening thunderheads, swirling winds and summer perfumes, which quickly immerse the traveller in the supernatural sensations of other worlds.”
It also added that in order to create the album, the two artists “have travelled through different portals”, and incorporated inspiration from their childhood surroundings. For Lynch, this relates to his Montana upbringing and frequent use of forest imagery. For the Texas-born singer, it comes from the “sultry southern breezes and daydreams from a forest clearing”.
Check out the artwork and tracklist below.
The ‘Cellophane Memories’ tracklist is:
1. ‘She Knew’
2. ‘The Sky Falls’
3. ‘You Know The Rest’
4. ‘So Much Love’
5. ‘Two Lovers Kiss’
6. ‘The Answers to the Questions’
7. ‘With Small Animals’
8. ‘Reflections in a Blade’
9. ‘Dance of Light’
10. ‘Sublime Eternal Love’
Lynch and Chrystabell have collaborated in the past, and created two previous albums together. They also worked together on Twin Peaks: The Return, in which the latter took on the role of Agent Tammy Preston.
In his time aside from music and Twin Peaks, Lynch started his career in film with his first feature-length project Eraserhead (1977). He has also won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). Other projects on the big screen include Dune (1984), Lost Highway (1997), and Inland Empire.
Lynch has previously hinted at a return to the Twin Peaks series, telling fans at a book signing in 2018 that the story “is calling, but there are a lot of disturbances”.
The show’s star Kyle MacLachlan also spoke about a fourth season, saying in 2018: “I think those kinds of things are certainly possible. I think we’re all just waiting on David to have the spark of an idea to go forward. It’d be a great journey. I would drop everything to do that.”
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