Willard's Wormholes

Floating Into The Night (1989)
The Voice Of Love (1993)
Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine

Dreamy, spacey, ethereal, sensuous, unsettling, mysterious, slightly unnerving and, for some reason, the kind of music I imagine hearing as I’m dying, pumped full of narcotics to ease the transition. Julee Cruise’s first two albums, recorded with soundtrack composer Angelo Badalamenti and off-kilter film director David Lynch, are triumphs of style and substance. Most know some of this music from the television show Twin Peaks, via the theme “Falling,” which expertly captures the weird, other-worldly energy these misfits have managed to generate. Cruise’s lighter-that-air vocals are almost unnatural, while Badalamenti’s hip fusion of Martian lounge and reverbed simplicity is strangely familiar, yet distantly unattainable. Lynch writes much of the lyric (and plays some percussion), but it’s the overall atmosphere that clings to you – and even creeps up on you after listening. Amazing stuff given the proper mood. You can find one or the other at Amazon for about a buck.

FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT
Floating (4:55)
Falling (5:25)
I Remember (4:13)
Rockin‘ Back Inside My Heart (5:49)
Mysteries Of Love (4:29)
Into The Night (4:44)
I Float Alone (4:36)
The Nightingale (4:57)
The Swan (2:33)

THE VOICE OF LOVE
The World Spins (6:38)
This Is Our Night (4:07)
Space For Love (3:24)
Movin‘ In On You (4:04)
Friends For Life (4:44)
Up In Flames (4:40)
Kool Kat Walk (6:23)
Until The End Of The World (5:33)
She Would Die For Love (6:07)
In My Other World (4:47)
Questions In A World Of Blue (4:48)
The Voice Of Love (3:15)