In the words of The Giant, it is happening again… again. It being another collaboration between director David Lynch and singer/actress Chrystabell, who starred as FBI agent Tammy Preston in “Twin Peaks: The Return.”
Over the Memorial Day weekend, Lynch cryptically teased something new for audiences to “see and hear” on June 5 (“June Five,” Lynch proclaimed in his Missoula, Montana speak). And no, the project is not the rebirth of his planned post-“Twin Peaks” series, “Unrecorded Night,” canceled during the pandemic. It’s an album with Chrystabell, “Cellophane Memories,” out August 2 via Sacred Bone records. And along with the Wednesday, June Five announcement, the label shared a new video for “Sublime Eternal Love,” featuring Chrystabell and directed by Lynch. Watch it below.
Lynch and Chrystabell, who hails from Texas, first collaborated circa his 2007 film “Inland Empire” (whose digitally shot, strobing visuals “Sublime Eternal Love” most resembles here). After Chrystabell contributed to that soundtrack, Lynch worked on her debut album “This Train” and following EP “Somewhere in the Nowhere” before he cast her in the third season of “Twin Peaks” as one of the agents heading up the investigation into the disappearance and return of Special Agent Dale Cooper, her long-missing colleague.
Per a press release, the origin of the album “comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops of which he saw a bright light. As he recalls it, the light became the lilt of Chrystabell’s voice and revealed a secret to him.” The release continues, “Elisions in time reappear over and over within Chrystabell’s vocals, which emerge and dissolve and loop back in layers of harmony and history. They are mantled by David’s, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti’s, orchestra of waldeinsamkeit-inspired strings, oneiric guitar glissandi and clouds of reverb, whose melodies are like the sensation of time pausing for a first kiss.”
“Twin Peaks: The Return” was Lynch’s last TV or feature film (depending on how you dice it) project. He recently spoke on an animated feature co-written with Caroline Thompson (“The Nightmare Before Christmas”) that Netflix rejected. “I’ve never really done a straight animation but with computers today it’s possible to do some spectacular things,” David Lynch told Deadline.
