Cellophane Memories

The album is the third collaborative album by Chrystabell and Lynch{{Cite web |last=Batista |first=Lelo Jimmy |title=«Cellophane Memories» de Chrystabell & David Lynch, plan-plan cosmique |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/musique/cellophane-memories-de-chrystabell-david-lynch-plan-plan-cosmique-20240812_I2HJON2H5VBVBINZAVPYJYITYQ/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}} after This Train (2011){{Cite book |last=Lynch |first=David |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Room_to_Dream/UJc3DwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=lynch+Chrystabell&pg=PT383&printsec=frontcover |title=Room to Dream |last2=McKenna |first2=Kristine |date=2018-06-19 |publisher=Canongate Books |isbn=978-1-78211-840-4 |language=en}} and Somewhere in the Nowhere (2016).{{Cite web |last=Langeois |first=Charlotte |date=2025-01-23 |title=IN MEMORIAM : DAVID LYNCH et la musique |url=https://www.modzik.com/musique/memoriam-david-lynch-et-la-musique/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Modzik |language=fr-FR}}

"On a starry night, David Lynch was taking a walk through the dark woods when he witnessed a flood of bright light coming over the tops of the trees. The otherworldly vision was the seed for Cellophane Memories".{{Cite web |date=2025-01-17 |title=David Lynch on music and innovation: “I like to call it experimentation” |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/david-lynch-music-sound-chrystabell-cellophane-memories |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=BFI |language=en}}

Lynch first teased the project in a cryptic video message posted to X on May 27, 2024.{{Cite web |last=Tinoco |first=Armando |date=May 27, 2024 |title=David Lynch Teases "Something Is Coming" June 5 In A Cryptic Video Message On X/Twitter |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/david-lynch-teases-something-june-5-1235942149/ |access-date=August 2, 2024 |website=Deadline}} The album was officially announced on June 5, alongside the release of the song "Sublime Eternal Love" and an accompanying video directed by Lynch.{{Cite web |last=Breihan |first=Tom |date=June 5, 2024 |title=Chrystabell & David Lynch – "Sublime Eternal Love" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2266558/chrystabell-david-lynch-sublime-eternal-love/music/ |access-date=August 2, 2024 |website=Stereogum}}{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/david-lynch-new-album-chrystabell-1236017914/|title=David Lynch's New Project Is an Album and Music Video With Chrystabell From 'Twin Peaks: The Return'|first=Pat|last=Saperstein|date=June 5, 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2024/06/david-lynch-chrystabell-new-album/|title=David Lynch, Chrystabell Conjure 'Cellophane Memories'|first=SPIN|last=Staff|date=June 5, 2024|website=SPIN}} "The Answers to the Questions" was released on July 9, 2024, with an animated music video directed by Lynch.

{{Track listing

| title_width = 100

| all_writing = David Lynch and Chrysta Bell Zucht, except where noted.

| title1 = She Knew

| note1 = Lynch, Zucht, Angelo Badalementi

| length1 = 3:12

| title2 = The Sky Falls

| length2 = 3:50

| title3 = You Know the Rest

| length3 = 3:16

| title4 = So Much Love

| note4 = Lynch, Zucht, Badalamenti

| length4 = 3:51

| title5 = Two Lovers Kiss

| length5 = 3:19

| title6 = The Answers to the Questions

| note6 = Lynch, Zucht, Dean Hurley

| length6 = 5:50

| title7 = With Small Animals

| length7 = 3:19

| title8 = Reflections in a Blade

| note8 = Lynch, Zucht, Hurley

| length8 = 4:02

| title9 = Dance of Light

| length9 = 4:08

| title10 = Sublime Eternal Love

| length10 = 2:46

| total_length = 37:33

}}

• Chrystabell – vocals, mixing, engineering
• David Lynch – synthesizer, guitar, production, mixing, arrangement
• Angelo Badalamenti – synthesizer
• Dean Hurley – bass, drums
• Brian Lucey – mastering

In his review for Pitchfork, Marc Weidenbaum stated, "It’s difficult to listen to the layered vocals on Cellophane Memories and not think of the roles that mirrors and fractured identities play in Lynch films. The layering is so persistent that it’s unclear if that consistency signals conceptual coherence or extended sameness".{{Cite web |last=Weidenbaum |first=Marc |title=Chrystabell / David Lynch: Cellophane Memories |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/chrystabell-david-lynch-cellophane-memories/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}

Writing for Paste Peyton Toubs was very mixed about the result of the collaboration and described the album as a "painfully abstract offering"{{Cite web |title=David Lynch & Chrystabell: 'Cellophane Memories' Album Review |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/david-lynch/cellophane-memories-is-a-painfully-abstract-offering-from-chrystabell-and-david-lynch |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Paste Magazine |language=en-US}} while Helen Brown, of The Independent, in a more positive review, called it "an enigma wrapped in a synth".{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/david-lynch-chrystabell-cellophane-memories-b2589587.html|title=David Lynch and Chrystabell review, Cellophane Memories: An enigma wrapped in a synth by the visionary director | The Independent}}

A 4 stars out of 5 in Le Soir wrote, "Between fairy tales, mountain peaks, swimming pools, twilight highways and dark rooms, the two artists weave a supernatural universe between romance and solitude."{{Cite web |date=2024-07-23 |title=Chrystabell & David Lynch, « Cellophane Memories » |url=https://www.lesoir.be/611508/article/2024-07-23/chrystabell-david-lynch-cellophane-memories |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Le Soir |language=fr}}

• Inland Empire (film), Lynch's 2006 film whose soundtrack contains a song by the two artists, "Polish Poem"{{Cite book |last=Nochimson |first=Martha P. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/David_Lynch_Swerves/ovMlmp4-D3oC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Polish+Poem+Lynch&pg=PT207&printsec=frontcover |title=David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire |date=2013-04-15 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-74889-7 |language=en}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://davidlynch.bandcamp.com/album/cellophane-memories Cellophane Memories] on Bandcamp
• [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-07-09/david-lynch-chrystabell-new-album-cellophane-memories Interview with the artists] in the Los Angeles Times
• [https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/26/sublime-eternal-love-exists-within-each-one-of-us-david-lynch-on-music-friendship-and-lifes-biggest-mystery Interview and comment] in The Guardian

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