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Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Soundtrack (1990)

What’s more popular, the Twin Peaks television show or the Twin Peaks soundtrack?  As much as I’m a massive fan of David Lynch, there is no Twin Peaks without the sumptuous, nightmare melodramatic score that accompanies it, courtesy of composer Angelo Badalamenti.  Moving between soap opera and fever dream, cool jazz to ethereal ballad, the music has escaped the confines of the show it was created for to mirror a reality where we are increasingly having to navigate through the unbelievable. Is there anything more ferrying and beautiful at the same time? Continue reading “Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks Soundtrack (1990)”