The Next Project From David Lynch Is Another Foray Into Music

The Next Project From David Lynch Is Another Foray Into Music

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2010 7:00 am EST

This week the director dropped a digital single on iTunes featuring two songs. They’re the first inking of the music project Mr. Lynch is working on now, which he’s calling “a kind of modern blues.”

The two tracks are ‘Good Day Today,’ a sort of soft electro jam punctuated with gunshots and bass thuds, and ‘I Know,’ which boasts a slightly more rock orientation. The latter sounds a good bit like the songs David Lynch co-wrote and sang on Dark Night of the Soul, and he sings both songs through the heavy vocal processing that was also heard on that record.

Here’s ‘Good Day Today,’ of which I was initially skeptical but have found to be alluring and infectious:

The LA Times and the Guardian both report on the tunes, noting that KCRW’s Jason Bentley (yep, him again) got ‘Good Day Today’ to the label Sunday Best, which plans to release the album Lynch is prepping. Of that record, the filmmaker says,

We’re working on a lot of things, and we hope to have an album soon… All of this to me is an experiment. We were calling it kind of a modern blues — music based on the blues. It’s led to all sorts of different things, but I really want to do a modern blues album… The advancement in digital things means there’s a whole slew of possibilities. I love organic phenomena. I love the real, rough sound of blues. I love a heavy guitar and great, strong drums. Then there’s so many things that can be done to it that will modernize it.

If you’re a vinyl nerd you can drop a load of cash on the high-quality expanded vinyl pressing of this single, which will also contain some forthcoming remixes. I’m finding the temptation difficult to resist.

Here’s ‘I Know,’ courtesy of Sunday Best. The vocals somewhat recall ‘Duck Stab’ era Residents — listening to this, I’m realizing I’d still love to hear Lynch cover ‘Hello Skinny.’