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Jul 15, 2013Even if his take on the blues is far from straightforward, this might be the most accessible set of songs associated with Lynch to date. In its own hypnotic way, The Big Dream honors the blues' lust for life and its lonely heart.
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Jul 16, 2013It’s a vastly superior record, drawing you in with its electronic, murky ambience and the impression that these songs are coming to you from a singer submerged in water.
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Jul 16, 2013More tightly structured and confident than 2011’s ‘Crazy Clown Time in terms of narrative, there’s further clarity in the unmistakable voice, which though heavily filtered feels much closer to his own.
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Jul 12, 2013An intriguing album befitting of a fascinating man.
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Jul 12, 2013It continues one of the most singular artistic visions of modern times and while it may not push it any further it’s often so damn charming as to make you forget about all that and just drift away into Lynch’s meditative world, in wrong love with the weird.
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Jul 26, 2013The Big Dream, like so much of his output, seems gloriously unbothered by chronology or even sense of place.
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Jul 12, 2013A thoroughly decent album from start to finish.
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Jul 16, 2013There’s enough musical ambition, heartbreak and menace on The Big Dream to keep the Lynch nerds absorbed.
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Aug 16, 2013It’s more of an unconscious escape hatch that Lynch has constructed with intangible aural elements--a fantasy place that he allows us to walk around in for a while until we are forced back into the realm of the painfully awake.
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Jul 16, 2013Submitting yourself to its hazy beauty may prove challenging for some, but for those willing to explore these unsteady climes, the journey will provide countless delights for the senses.
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Jul 15, 2013The main weakness is the same one found on Crazy Clown Time: the songs. As songs, they don’t do much or say much.
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Jul 24, 2013At the very least, the album should convince diehard Lynch fans that the director’s self-imposed, semi-retirement from filmmaking is bearing some very interesting artistic fruit indeed.
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Jul 16, 2013Over the course of the record’s 12 tracks, Lynch settles into an electro-blues groove as comfortable and consistent as he’s likely to get as a musician.
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Jul 12, 2013This whole album feels less of an art stunt and more of a well-executed idea.
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Jul 16, 2013Despite it being a visionary work from an artist seldom seen nowadays, The Big Dream is more cohesive, more coherent but all the less fearless because of it.
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