Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Daily Telegraph[4]
The Independent[5]
The Irish Times[6]
Paste5.9/10[7]
Pitchfork7.3/10[8]
The Skinny[9]
Under the Radar8.5/10[10]

Cellophane Memories is the third collaborative studio album by Chrystabell and David Lynch. The album was released by Sacred Bones Records on August 2, 2024.[11][12] The album also features posthumous credits from composer Angelo Badalamenti, who contributes synths to "She Knew" and "So Much Love."[7] Released five months before his death in January 2025, it was Lynch's final album.

Background and release

The album is the third collaborative album by Chrystabell and Lynch[13] after This Train (2011)[14] and Somewhere in the Nowhere (2016).[15]

"On a starry night, David Lynch was taking a walk through the dark woods when he witnessed a flood of bright light coming over the tops of the trees. The otherworldly vision was the seed for Cellophane Memories".[16]

Lynch first teased the project in a cryptic video message posted to X on May 27, 2024.[17] The album was officially announced on June 5, alongside the release of the song "Sublime Eternal Love" and an accompanying video directed by Lynch.[18][19][20] "The Answers to the Questions" was released on July 9, 2024, with an animated music video directed by Lynch.[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Lynch and Chrysta Bell Zucht, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."She Knew" (Lynch, Zucht, Angelo Badalementi)3:12
2."The Sky Falls"3:50
3."You Know the Rest"3:16
4."So Much Love" (Lynch, Zucht, Badalamenti)3:51
5."Two Lovers Kiss"3:19
6."The Answers to the Questions" (Lynch, Zucht, Dean Hurley)5:50
7."With Small Animals"3:19
8."Reflections in a Blade" (Lynch, Zucht, Hurley)4:02
9."Dance of Light"4:08
10."Sublime Eternal Love"2:46
Total length:37:33

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Cellophane Memories
Chart (2024) Peak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[21] 11

Reception

In his review for Pitchfork, Marc Weidenbaum stated, "It’s difficult to listen to the layered vocals on Cellophane Memories and not think of the roles that mirrors and fractured identities play in Lynch films. The layering is so persistent that it’s unclear if that consistency signals conceptual coherence or extended sameness".[22]

Writing for Paste Peyton Toubs was very mixed about the result of the collaboration and described the album as a "painfully abstract offering"[23] while Helen Brown, of The Independent, in a more positive review, called it "an enigma wrapped in a synth".[24]

A 4 stars out of 5 in Le Soir wrote, "Between fairy tales, mountain peaks, swimming pools, twilight highways and dark rooms, the two artists weave a supernatural universe between romance and solitude."[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Zilko, Christian (July 9, 2024). "David Lynch Directs Animated Music Video for His New Song 'The Answers to the Questions' with Chrystabell". IndieWire. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "Cellophane Memories by David Lynch Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  3. ^ Phares, Heather. "Cellophane Memories - Chrystabell, David Lynch..." AllMusic. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  4. ^ Hall, James; Platt, Poppie; Carlin, Sophie (August 2, 2024). "David Lynch and Chrystabell, Cellophane Memories: one of the strangest things Lynch has ever done". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  5. ^ Brown, Helen (August 1, 2024). "David Lynch and Chrystabell review, Cellophane Memories: An enigma wrapped in a synth by the visionary director and his Texan partner". The Independent. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  6. ^ Murphy, Lauren (July 25, 2024). "Chrystabell & David Lynch: Cellophane Memories review – A vague, languorous soundtrack of morose, samey ballads".
  7. ^ a b Toups, Peyton (August 1, 2024). "Cellophane Memories is a Painfully Abstract Offering From Chrystabell and David Lynch". Paste. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  8. ^ Weidenbaum, Marc (August 6, 2024). "Chrystabell / David Lynch: Cellophane Memories Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
  9. ^ Goggins, Joe (July 31, 2024). "Chrystabell & David Lynch – Cellophane Memories". The Skinny. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  10. ^ Gard'ner, Daniel (August 2, 2024). "Chrystabell & David Lynch: Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones) - review". Under the Radar. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  11. ^ Richardson, Mark (July 30, 2024). "'Cellophane Memories' by Chrystabell and David Lynch Review: A Hypnotic Haze of an Album". The Wall Street Journal.
  12. ^ Shuttleworth, Alastair (July 26, 2024). "'Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us': David Lynch on music, friendship and life's biggest mystery". The Guardian. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  13. ^ Batista, Lelo Jimmy. "«Cellophane Memories» de Chrystabell & David Lynch, plan-plan cosmique". Libération (in French). Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  14. ^ Lynch, David; McKenna, Kristine (June 19, 2018). Room to Dream. Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-78211-840-4.
  15. ^ Langeois, Charlotte (January 23, 2025). "IN MEMORIAM : DAVID LYNCH et la musique". Modzik (in French). Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  16. ^ "David Lynch on music and innovation: "I like to call it experimentation"". BFI. January 17, 2025. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  17. ^ Tinoco, Armando (May 27, 2024). "David Lynch Teases "Something Is Coming" June 5 In A Cryptic Video Message On X/Twitter". Deadline. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  18. ^ Breihan, Tom (June 5, 2024). "Chrystabell & David Lynch – "Sublime Eternal Love"". Stereogum. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  19. ^ Saperstein, Pat (June 5, 2024). "David Lynch's New Project Is an Album and Music Video With Chrystabell From 'Twin Peaks: The Return'".
  20. ^ Staff, SPIN (June 5, 2024). "David Lynch, Chrystabell Conjure 'Cellophane Memories'". SPIN.
  21. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  22. ^ Weidenbaum, Marc. "Chrystabell / David Lynch: Cellophane Memories". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  23. ^ "David Lynch & Chrystabell: 'Cellophane Memories' Album Review". Paste Magazine. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  24. ^ "David Lynch and Chrystabell review, Cellophane Memories: An enigma wrapped in a synth by the visionary director | The Independent".
  25. ^ "Chrystabell & David Lynch, « Cellophane Memories »". Le Soir (in French). July 23, 2024. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  26. ^ Nochimson, Martha P. (April 15, 2013). David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74889-7.
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