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Aug 2, 2024Like 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.
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The WireOct 22, 2024Strange and seductive. [Oct 2024, p.48]
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Aug 12, 2024While 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.
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Aug 8, 2024“Sublime Eternal Love” closes the album with an affirming major progression. The vocal overlaps are still there, but Chrystabell’s diction is more distinct, ending a recording of dark pathways moving towards an imagery of endless light.
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Aug 7, 2024Cellophane Memories ranks among Lynch's best: slippery, bewitching and almost overwhelmingly Lynchian.
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MojoAug 5, 2024The occasional slo-mo reverb-guitar twang, and on The Answers To The Questions a weary beatbox, cap off a supremely unsettling update on Lynchian pop weirdness. [Sep 2024, p.92]
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Aug 2, 2024As ever, Lynch has crafted a strange world thick with foreboding, one that some will find inaccessible. For those willing to stay a while within it, though, there is much wonder here.
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Aug 6, 2024Cellophane Memories may be pretty, but it’s not easy.
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Aug 22, 2024A 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.
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UncutAug 5, 2024On 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]
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Aug 2, 2024Cellophane Memories is harder to get a grip on. Chrystabell’s vocals, previously the unambiguous focus of every song, are here layered, cut-up, and reversed, often to the point where they become indecipherable. That’s in part due to the nature of its creation.
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Aug 2, 2024At times it does play like the soundtrack to a rather pretentious spa – but Cellophane Memories snuck up on me with its subtle, synthy scrapbooking. Slyly seductive stuff, if not Peak Lynch.
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Aug 2, 2024It’s refreshing to hear an album that so thoroughly ignores those strictures. That said, I doubt Cellophane Memories will ever be more than cult listening.
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Aug 2, 2024Enigmatic and frustrating album.