Today, so it says here, “Chrystabell and David Lynch share their first single Sublime Eternal Love“. The single is from the upcoming album Cellophane Memories, am album that’s out on August 2nd via Sacred Bones Records. “The single arrives with a striking accompanying video directed by David Lynch”. Well you would expect him to make the video, I mean I assume the video is a little more than just an accompanying promo piece, a piece of art rather than a piece of marketing. The film and indeed the piece of music peak for themselves, you don’t need me to add anything, music reviews as so last century and yes it is almost spiritual in tone and sentiment, “lush synth organs envelope the listener in an emotional and celestial ascendant musical atmosphere. Chrystabell’s vocal lines overlap and intertwine, creating a sonic mirage of gentle, warm vocals – so when you can catch a singular vocal, the lyrics are that much more poignant: “He fell down crying…calling out he cried…cried for understanding…and the noise turned to music.”  The feeling of the song draws you in and carries you, steady in its simple yet deeply moving inflection” – lazy use of the press release there but I have places to be and paint to throw at a wall and there is no time to be talking (or typing) about artistically minimalistic things and how hypnotically compelling they are, although I feel I should mention that the three projected versions of herself in the same frame are kind compelling, Warhol never thought of that one did he (or did he?), Andy Warhol was a here to some, maybe not David Lynch, who knows? They have shared wall space. Here’s the video…

“The origin of Chrystabell and David Lynch’s album Cellophane Memories 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. It is from these mysterious convergences of light and sound, day and night, starry sky and black forest that Chrystabell and David’s collaboration has continued to blossom.

Both artists are from the purlieus, and their work has always expressed a life outside of the world’s center. The Texas-born singer’s voice is inspired by sultry southern breezes and daydreams from a forest clearing. The Montana filmmaker’s eye is like a movie projector flickering in the forest dark. Together, they produced two previous records and collaborated on Twin Peaks: The Return in which Chrystabell played the role of Agent Tammy Preston. For Cellophane Memories, the two have traveled through different portals. In Chrystabell’s words, the album contains “many doors that are left open to wonder, wander and get turned around in.” “It’s like mood music,” she says, “not that it creates mood, but more that it reflects your own.”

Fittingly, many of the songs on Cellophane Memories are set in fairytale 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. But they are also shapeless atmospheres—of color, weather and breath: blue and white skies, red roses, darkening thunderheads, swirling winds and summer perfumes, which quickly immerse the traveler in the supernatural sensations of other worlds.

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.

As with much of Chrystabell and David’s work from the past, Cellophane Memories returns us to a central question: what is a mystery? Alas, the riddle remains unanswered. But all mystery contains slivers of those conceits and feelings described above: the departing and the coming-back, the landscape, atmosphere and breath, the topsy turvy mechanisms of time, memories of the bygone, a distant light radiating from darkness, music within silence, love.

To experience this album is to see the first faint glimmers of a mystery that occurred in a midnight forest long ago and to hear the sound of a voice that inspired love’s return from the dark”.

Right now you can find a second track on the Bandcamp page along with all the details you might need (or alternatively)

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