Showing posts with label Julee Cruise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julee Cruise. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Leon Bridges - Lisa Sawyer

New dream ballad from TX Soul-groover Leon Bridges, simmers like the heat of Louisiana swamp. Do we need to keep referencing Sam Cooke with this dude? Probably, I mean, Bridges just completely nails that super smooth, Rockin' Back Inside My Heart meets You Send Me vibe we're all craving this slushy March. So kick back and let these warm chords wrap you up like a big bearskin rug. Lisa Sawyer: Also here's his new vidoe for the single, Coming Home:

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

David Lynch - The Big Dream (Moby reversion featuring Mindy Jones)

An unsurprisingly haunting, visual reversion, of David Lynch's recent single. Moby displays some very Lynchian camera work, as Mindy Jones delivers this spectre's ballad. Moon-washed light flashes illuminate the creeping background characters, who step in and out of the frame and focus, like unknowable shadow-people. The tune itself is a cryptic blues melody with hints of Julee Cruise, Billie Holiday, and This Mortal Coil. For fans of Lynch this is an easy choice.. just press play and softly drift away....

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

David Lynch & Lykke Li - I'm Waiting Here

A chilling, midnight-in-the-desert melody, unwinds here, through the disquieting audio filter of David Lynch. Unlike most of the hazified, roots of Rock N' Roll songs, found on Lynch's latest LP, The Big Dream, this one off single with Lykke Li has an ambient yet, haunting refrain that raises it above the rest. Lynch has an ear for tunefulness and his love of Blues and early Doo-Wop has been a feature of nearly each of his film and television projects. Unfortunately, despite all the distortion, dissonance and pitch correction applied to Lynch's voice, his whiny Missoula drawl still dominates most of his songs, to an off-putting level. Lykke Li's voice on the other hand, has a much more dexterous and palatable tone, and so it works almost perfectly with the rest of the creeping instrumentation here. There is an almost transparent connection between this song and something like The World Spins, or even In Dreams, yet Lynch has not lost himself in the soup of the past, but rather reanimated some of its best qualities. Please, step into the passenger seat for this one, and enjoy.. the Full blossom of the evening...