![]() In that opener, as in most of the tracks, Lynch is doing variations on the dark and elementary blues shuffles he and Angelo Badalamenti used to come up with for roadhouse and party scenes in the “Twin Peaks” franchise. (Maybe it was their wrecked car that Nic Cage and Laura Dern came upon in “Wild at Heart”?) The album’s only guest vocal is right up front, with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs taking the lead on a breathy “Pinky’s Dream,” in which she repeatedly implores, “Please, Pinky, watch the road.” The song’s abrupt ending suggests that he didn’t. That said, the album is frequently funny, on top of creepy - not in a just-kidding-about-all-this kind of way, but in that peculiarly Lynchian manner in which a strong streak of absurdism has always offset the unsettling. Maybe, with all these tense and nerve-racking sounds, Lynch just intends to create more demand for the calming cure that TM is meant to offer. ![]() If you’ve ommm-ed your way to a state of higher consciousness, it’s just the record to bring yourself back down to earth, though it might overcompensate by taking you to the third or fourth rung of the underworld. Lynch’s first solo album, “Crazy Clown Time,” doesn’t sound very Maharishi-approved, either. ![]() David Lynch arrives for the annual David Lynch Foundation benefit celebration in New York December 13, 2010. ![]()
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