As promised last week, David Lynch has announced his next project for fans to see and hear: his new album with Christabel, Cellophane Memories, due out August 2nd via Sacred Bones.
The album's announcement was accompanied by the release of its first single, “Sublime Eternal Love,” along with a Lynch-directed music video. (It may come as some consolation to those hoping that Lynch would release his first feature film since 2006 today, but unfortunately, the wait continues.) In the video for “Sublime Eternal Love,” Christabel appears triple in close-up, virtually simultaneously presenting different versions of herself as she sings the seductive, synthesizer-heavy song.
Lynch and Christabel first worked together on the soundtrack to Inland Empire, the filmmaker's final film. The two have collaborated regularly since then, with Lynch producing and writing lyrics for her 2011 debut album, This Train, and her 2016 LP, Somewhere in the Nowhere. Christabel played Agent Tammy Preston in 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return.
According to his Cellophane Memories press biography, Lynch was inspired to write the new album after experiencing a vision in which he was “walking at night through a forest of tall trees when he saw a bright light at the top of the trees. As he recalled, the light manifested as Christabel's voice intoning and revealing a secret to him.”
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In a statement, Cristobel said the album “contains many open doors for wondering, wandering and redirecting,” adding that it's “a kind of mood music, reflecting my own mood rather than creating a mood.”
Cellophane Memories will be Lynch's first album since 2018's Thought Gang, a collaboration with the late composer Angelo Badalmenti. The new album is set to feature posthumous music from Badalamenti, who passed away in 2022. In 2020, Lynch released a single featuring two new songs he wrote for the monkey-interrogation short film What Did Jack Do?