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David Lynch // Crazy Clown Time

02/11/11

Release Date: November 7th 2011

David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (Sunday Best Recordings)

“David Lynch??! Int he dat geezer dat did the Twin Peaks shizzle?” Yeeees my vernacularly challenged friend the man responsible for some of the most memorably surreal and disturbing images on film and TV has decided to lay down his demented clapboard and recorded his debut solo album.  While Lynch fans will be ramming their heads into mirrors with anticipation the man whose majority of films gain ‘cult’ status has achieved one of the (predictably) weirdest and (unfortunately) mind-numbingly dull albums since big Willie Shatner’s ‘The Transformed Man’…woof!  More pointless than thumbing in a floppy the album is bereft of invention, variation and is appropriately summed up in its Ronseal-sponsored centrepiece ‘Strange and Unproductive Thinking’, in fact you could probably do with sniffing some creosote to get through the ordeal.  While sound is one of the keystones to his inimitable cinematic approach, none of the suspense and mystery that characterises his ‘Lynchian’ style makes an appearance.  Whether it’s the image of Dennis Hopper’s gas-guzzling sociopath in ‘Blue Velvet’ or the smirking ‘Mystery Man’ in ‘Lost Highway’, Lynch’s output has always, if nothing else, provoked reaction and discussion but the only thing this monotonous garbage evokes is the disappointment that it exists.  While always rightfully lauded for being experimental it seems Lynch’s latest experiment is to find out how much crap you can produce before people feel ripped off. 

0/10 Mike Jarvis