Lynchian: it’s a word that gets bandied about a lot in music. From the Laura Palmer-referencing anti-pop of Sky Ferreria to the disorientating melodrama of Kanye West’s “Blood on the Leaves” and the creepy kitsch of The Raveonettes, it has — since first coined by novelist David Foster Wallace in his essay on Lost Highway — become a kind of journalistic shorthand for all things wild at heart and weird on top. A reverb drenched vocal here, undulating synth there: a sense of barely concealed horror like a nest of insects beneath a well-kept suburban lawn. With the long-awaited vinyl reissue of the Angelo Badalamenti’s official Twin Peaks soundtrack released yesterday, we pulled together a few of those acts for whom the term Lynchian could have been coined (if, you know, the term wasn’t “Lynchian”). Pour a yourself a cup of coffee and press play below. It’s damn good.
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Text Matthew Whitehouse
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