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  • Artist(s): Chrystabell
  • Summary: The latest full-length collaboration between Chrystabell and David Lynch features the late Angelo Badalamenti on several tracks.
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Aug 2, 2024
    85
    Like a lot of Lynch’s work, it stands at the precipice of blissful transformation and unknowable darkness. With Chrystabell as a formidable new ally, it’s a dimension he’s still exploring.
  2. Aug 12, 2024
    80
    While there's plenty of dreamy heartache, it's the often bewildering beauty Chrystabell and Lynch achieve on this album that makes it an artistic milestone for both of them.
  3. The Wire
    Oct 22, 2024
    80
    Strange and seductive. [Oct 2024, p.48]
  4. Aug 6, 2024
    73
    Cellophane Memories may be pretty, but it’s not easy.
  5. Aug 22, 2024
    71
    A solid and polished record, a beautiful collection – not one to outlast time, but to chronicle its passing nature, and the melancholy released from that realisation.
  6. Uncut
    Aug 5, 2024
    70
    On first listen, Cellophane Memories sounds reliably Lynchian in its hypnagogic moans, bluesy torch songs and voluptuous slow-motion noir-scapes. But it also pushes beyond these familiar tropes, notably by layering, intertwining and tape-reversing Zucht’s sultry mezzo-soprano vocals on deliciously weird stand-outs. [Sep 2024, p.29]
  7. Aug 2, 2024
    59
    Enigmatic and frustrating album.

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