Chrystabell & David Lynch "Cellophane Memories" LP (2024)

Details: Chrystabell & David Lynch "Cellophane Memories" LP (Sacred Bones, 2024)

Description: "... Time is a mercurial creature in Chrystabell and David’s songs. The characters are little more than oblique sketches of time’s quotidian melodramas: people arrive and depart as strangers, strangers fall into despair and love, lovers part at the crossroads and re-unite in a dream. In this quantum matinee of everyday life, each character is both a star and a background extra. 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."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING:

01. She Knew
02. The Sky Falls
03. You Know The Rest
04. So Much Love
05. Two Lovers Kiss
06. The Answers To The Questions
07. Reflections in a Blade
08. Dance of Light
09. Sublime Eternal Love