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Exclu­sive: A new audio­vi­su­al night­mare from David Lynch

14 Nov 2018

Words by Adam Woodward

Cloudy, cracked surface of a moon-like object against a dark, shadowy background with silhouetted power lines.
Cloudy, cracked surface of a moon-like object against a dark, shadowy background with silhouetted power lines.
Watch a sur­re­al pro­mo­tion­al short for the direc­tor and Ange­lo Badalamenti’s debut jazz LP Thought Gang’.

In Sep­tem­ber Sacred Bones Records announced the release of the debut LP from Thought Gang, the eso­teric jazz side project of David Lynch and Ange­lo Badala­men­ti which evolved from the seeds of Twin Peaks. Long con­sid­ered a lost work, the album was record­ed in the ear­ly 90s some­time between the show’s sec­ond sea­son and spin-off movie Fire Walk With Me. Lynch has remained some­what coy on the project over the years, more recent­ly describ­ing the group’s sound as jet-fuelled jazz”.

Now we’re excit­ed to exclu­sive­ly share two tracks from the Thought Gang album in the form of a sur­re­al new audio­vi­su­al work direct­ed by Lynch. The 13-minute pro­mo­tion­al short, apt­ly titled Ant Head’, orig­i­nal­ly pre­miered at the Fes­ti­val of Dis­rup­tion in Los Ange­les last month, and this is the first time it’s being made avail­able to a wider audience.

Album tracks Frank 2000’ and Wood­cut­ters From Fiery Ships’ both appear in the video, which com­pris­es a sin­gle black-and-white shot of a fleet of ants crawl­ing all over a strange head-shaped object, set against a typ­i­cal­ly Lynchi­an, indus­tri­al back­drop. Lynch had this to say regard­ing the piece: It is a short video fea­tur­ing my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and 1 12 tracks from the Thought Gang album.”

The Though Gang album is out now on Sacred Bones Records on LP, CD and Dig­i­tal formats.

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