Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack

This is the soundtrack from the early 90's television show 'Twin Peaks'. All songs are written by Angelo Badalamenti and were also produced by him and the show's writer and producer David Lynch. The album features mostly instrumental tracks but there a few tracks with vocals by Julee Cruise. Cruise is best known for performing the show's theme tune 'Falling'. Twin Peaks is a true enigma and the town is populated by oddball characters whose motives are often shady. The plotline of the show involves the Laura Palmer murder mystery - a beautiful homecoming queen who had been living a secret life. Yet even in the wake of this tragedy there are as many situations ...  Read the complete review

David Lynch and Mark Frost's 'Twin Peaks' was one of the defining television series of the nineties, its success and surprising popularity opening up the possibilities for supernatural-themed drama that followed, from series such as 'The X-Files' and 'Buffy' to more recent works like 'Lost' that still share a distinct serialised format. Its unique atmosphere, in the first season at least, was a mix of clichéd soap opera parody and a distinctly darker edge exploring the seedy, secretive life beneath the surface of a close-knit community also evident in Lynch's earlier success 'Blue Velvet,' and the soundtrack succeeds admirably in capturing this bipolar fusion in Angelo ...  Read the complete review