David Lynch

As one of the world's great filmmakers, David Lynch became renowned for creating surrealist classics such as Eraserhead (1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Mullholland Drive (2001), and the TV series Twin Peaks (1990-91 /  2017). His hand in their eerily beautiful soundtracks led him to delve further into music, building his own studio at his house and writing and producing – along with composer Angelo Badalamenti - two albums for actress-turned-singer Julee Cruise. David Lynch played guitar and sang on BlueBob (2001), a collaboration with engineer John Neff which produced a video for the track “Thank You, Judge” - starring Naomi Watts and Eli Roth - before working with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous) on the album and photography book Dark Night Of The Soul (2010). In 2010, KCRW radio host David Bentley accidentally played one of David Lynch's home-studio electronic experiments on air believing it to be a new Underworld track. It led to Rob Da Bank signing him to his label Sunday Best Recordings for the album Crazy Clown Time (2011), a typically odd collection of melancholy electro and twanging nourish guitars featuring Karen O of Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs. The album was successful and charted in the US, France, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany. David Lynch followed that album with The Big Dream in 2013. He also collaborated on several musical projects with singer and actress Chrystabell. Suffering from emphysema, David Lynch died on January 15, 2025, five days before his 79th birthday.