The Thousands

This untiring contrarian was hoping David Lynch’s debut album Crazy Clown Time would be crap. Bored with Facebook profiles featuring Twin Peaks as an interest, I was ready to lump Lynch in with Toni Collette & the Finish. Not to mention that my own desperate attempt to get out of a depressed funk by taking up Transcendental Meditation led to the realisation it would cost $5000 and it’s pretty much a cult.

On listening to his exposition on TM in techno throwback, ‘Strange and Unproductive Thinking‘, Lynch hasn’t much changed my opinion on group meditation but it has made me realise, at 65, he can still out-weird any of his contemporaries. Sure, he illustrates the bliss of astral travel through some whacked metaphor of tooth decay but he also sings an entire song about football through what sounds like a mouthful of cotton wool. He even sees a dude called ‘Pinky’ ignoring Karen O as she begs him to stop speeding, while the seemingly harmless observation of ‘Good Day Today’ becomes the chorus for a charmingly amateurish attempt at trance music. This is the guy who made downtown Los Angeles seem interesting and Cherry Pie a cuisine, so you had better believe he can make this particular career change just as freakishly compelling.