Floating Into the Night
by Julee Cruise
- Type: Album
- Released: September聽12,聽1989
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United States
- Length: 48:11
- Community rating: 4.43/5 from 18 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
As the product of a singular collaboration between composer Angelo Badalamenti, lyricist David Lynch, and vocalist Julee Cruise, 'Floating Into the Night' is a landmark recording in dream pop. Badalamenti鈥檚 compositions fuse the torch-song conventions of 1950s pop with modern ambient synthesizers and jazz noir tonalities, creating a distinctive sonic backdrop for Lynch's enigmatic lyrics and Cruise's famously ethereal, reverb-drenched vocal delivery. The album is inextricably linked to Lynch's filmography, particularly as the unofficial soundtrack to the television series *Twin Peaks*, with its songs defining the show's uncanny atmosphere and cementing the record's cultural and genre significance.
Genres
Descriptors: dreamy, reverb-heavy, retro, ballad, velvety, ambient, atmospheric, female-vocals, lounge
Tracklist
- Floating (04:54)
- Falling (05:21)
- I Remember (04:13)
- Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (05:49)
- Mysteries of Love (04:29)
- Into the Night (04:44)
- I Float Alone (04:35)
- The Nightingale (04:56)
- The Swan (02:32)
- The World Spins (06:38)
Credits
- Julee Cruise - vocals, primary artist
- Eddie Dixon - electric guitar
- Vinnie Bell - electric guitar
- Kinny Landrum - synthesizer
- Angelo Badalamenti - synthesizer, piano, arrangement, orchestration, music by, producer, composer, lyricist
- Al Regni - tenor saxophone, clarinet
- David Lynch - art direction, photography by, lyrics by, producer
- Kevin Laffey - a&r [a&r directions]
- Tom Recchion - design
- Art Pohlemus - engineer, mixed by
- Stephen Marcussen - mastered by, direct metal mastering by
- Jay Healy - mixed by
- Mike Krowiak - mixed by
- Tim Leitner - mixed by
- Patricia Norris - costume designer [wardrobe]