David Lynch (yes, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, "I'll fuck anything that moves" David Lynch) put out an electro single today, which is apparently in support of an upcoming full album. Let that sink in for a bit. The single is unsurprisingly pretty awful - a vocalist who may or may not be Lynch mewls into a vocoder over a "Hey guys, check out this new program called Garage Band!" beat. But it's not like I'm going to get mad at David Lynch for being batshit crazy and weird - that's kind of his raison d'etre (although I wish dude would make a movie again - after 2006's masterful Inland Empire, his only video work has been a moderately intriguing 15-min Dior Commercial with Marion Cotillard).
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Lynch's odd foray does at least bring to mind another slightly more successful test-tube pop explosion from an unlikely source, Yoko Ono's 1981 foray into disco "Walking on Thin Ice". In fairness, Yoko did have help from a certain genius Beatle collaborator. The track was in fact the last song that John Lennon ever worked on - he was reportedly holding a cassette of the song's demo in his hands when he was shot. It's a fairly haunting final statement, since Lennon's guitar work is so forward-thinking and bizarre, even in the context of a pretty tight dance groove. Watch for the breakdown halfway through the son, where Lennon fits a harshly abrasive guitar vibrato into the beat perfectly - you get the sense that Lennon may well have aged better as a musician than his fellow Beatles did as punk and grunge started to take hold. It's enough to make you look past Yoko's creepy speak-sing (for the most part, anyway).
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