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Crazy Clown Time Studio album by David Lynch Released 7 November 2011 Recorded 2011 Genre Alternative rock, electro-pop Label Play It Again Sam Producer Dean Hurley Crazy Clown Time is the debut album by American film director David Lynch. It was released in 2011 on the Play It Again Sam record label.
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Description
Crazy Clown Time is the first solo album by Lynch. Two songs, "Good Day Today" and "I Know", were released in November 2010.[1] The album contains music that evolved from "home-studio jam sessions and sporadic experiments" which Lynch says he will not attempt to recreate in a live setting.[2][3]
The album features the voice of David Lynch and guest vocals by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, over "reverb-soaked guitar twangs" and "electronic washes".[4][3]
Reception
Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating Metacritic 64/100[5] Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[6]Slant Magazine [7]Pitchfork (6.1/10)[8] The album received mixed to positive reviews. Metacritic assigned it an average score of 65 out of 100, based on 25 reviews.[5] A BBC music critic writes that the album "hangs together" and "transfers something of Lynch's uncanny cinema to the musical medium" but it is "not without its duff tracks" in particular, the song "Strange and Unproductive Thinking", which includes lyrics about Transcendental Meditation read through a vocoder machine.[4] Another music critic described it as "unsettling, brilliant, beautiful, everyday, avant-garde vision" that is "close to Electro-Pop" and yet "unlike any Electro-Pop".[1] A critic at Time Entertainment commented: "though it won't make you think that he's a musician first and a filmmaker second... this disc is at least worth picking up" even though at times the album gets too weighed down with "bluesy weirdness" and other sounds instead of coming up with memorable lyrics that "keep the listener in the world".[9] Other critics have referred to the recording as "untranscendental, unmeditative", "transfixingly odd", and "the white man's blues" with a "sameness to the musical bed and feeling" on a lot of the musical tracks.[10]
Chart performance
On November 13, 2011, the album debuted at number 91 on the UK Top 100 chart.[11]
Track listing
No. Title Length 1. "Pinky's Dream" 4:00 2. "Good Day Today" 4:39 3. "So Glad" 3:35 4. "Noah's Ark" 4:54 5. "Football Game" 4:20 6. "I Know" 4:03 7. "Strange and Unproductive Thinking" 7:29 8. "The Night Bell With Lightning" 4:59 9. "Stone's Gone Up" 5:21 10. "Crazy Clown Time" 7:00 11. "These Are My Friends" 4:58 12. "Speed Roadster" 3:55 13. "Movin' On" 4:14 14. "She Rise Up" 5:16 15. "Sparkle Lounge Blues (iTunes bonus track)" 3:49 Charts
Chart (2011) Peak
positionBelgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[12] 68 Swiss Albums Chart[12] 96 References
- ^ a b Shaw, Andrew (November 8 2011) MUSIC REVIEW: DAVID LYNCH - 'CRAZY CLOWN TIME' Buzzine
- ^ deFore, John (November 8 2011) "To Lynch’s long, weird résumé, add a rock recording" The Bulletin
- ^ a b Smirke, Richard. "Q&A: It's Crazy Clown Time". Billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/news/david-lynch-q-a-it-s-crazy-clown-time-1005484952.story. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
- ^ a b Louis Pattison (November 4, 2011). "David Lynch Crazy Clown Time Review". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6g5c.
- ^ a b Crazy Clown Time at Metacritic Retrieved November 11, 2011.
- ^ Phares, Heather. "Crazy Clown Time". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/crazy-clown-time-main-entry-r2274084. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
- ^ Cataldo, Jesse (November 6, 2011). "David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time". Slant Magazine. http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/david-lynch-crazy-clown-time/2677. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Powell, Mike (November 8, 2011). "David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time". Pitchfork. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15999-david-lynch-crazy-clown-time/. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Kivel, Adam (November 8 2011) David Lynch's Crazy Clown Time Is Just as Creepy As You Thought It Would Be Time Entertainment
- ^ Willman, Chris (November 9 2011) "David Lynch Makes Untranscendental Unmeditative, Transfixingly Odd Solo Album" The Wrap
- ^ http://www.theofficialcharts.com/albums-chart/
- ^ a b "Ultratop.be - David Lynch -Crazy Clown Time" (in Dutch). Ultratop. ULTRATOP & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=David+Lynch&titel=Crazy+Clown+Time&cat=aa. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
The works of David Lynch Frequent collaborators · AccoladesFeature films Eraserhead (1977) · The Elephant Man (1980) · Dune (1984) · Blue Velvet (1986) · Wild at Heart (1990) · Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) · Lost Highway (1997) · The Straight Story (1999) · Mulholland Drive (2001) · Inland Empire (2006)Short films Industrial Symphony No. 1 (1990) · Premonition Following An Evil Deed (1995) · Darkened Room (2002) · Boat (2007) · Absurda (2007) · Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)Television Other work Catching the Big Fish · Rabbits · Images · DumbLand · The Angriest Dog in the World · BlueBob · The Air Is on Fire · Lynch on Lynch · Surveillance · My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? · Dark Night of the Soul · Crazy Clown TimeAwards by film The Elephant Man · Blue Velvet · Wild at HeartCategories:- 2011 albums
- David Lynch albums
- English-language albums
- PIAS Recordings albums
- Debut albums
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