Floating Into the Night

by Julee Cruise

Floating Into the Night cover art
  • 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

  1. Floating (04:54)
  2. Falling (05:21)
  3. I Remember (04:13)
  4. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (05:49)
  5. Mysteries of Love (04:29)
  6. Into the Night (04:44)
  7. I Float Alone (04:35)
  8. The Nightingale (04:56)
  9. The Swan (02:32)
  10. 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]

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