Floating into the Night
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| Studio album by Julee Cruise | ||||
| Released | September 12, 1989 | |||
| Studio | Excalibur Sound in New York City, New York, United States | |||
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| Length | 47:56 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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| The Village Voice | B− |
Floating into the Night is the debut studio album by the American dream pop musician Julee Cruise. It was released on September 12, 1989 on Warner Bros. Records.
Floating into the Night was produced—and all songs were written by—composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch; Badalamenti composed the music and Lynch wrote the lyrics. According to Lynch, 40 songs were written for the album in total, with the final track listing including 10 tracks.Floating into the Night is a dream pop album, with heavy elements of jazz and traditional jazz instrumentation;Rolling Stone considered Floating into the Night as a definitive development of the dream pop sound, describing how the album "added depth to [the genre]" and "gave the genre its synthy sheen", particularly on the track "Mysteries of Love".
Cruise's vocals on Floating into the Night feature heavy use of digital reverb. Cruise regarded herself as "a Broadway belter" and had a reputation in her earlier career for letting "angry and aggressive emotions power her work". However, Lynch "felt that Cruise had a 'soft, sad side'" and encouraged her to sing in a softer tone and in a higher register; Cruise's vocal style on the album has been often regarded as "ethereal" and drawn comparisons to Elizabeth Fraser on the earlier releases by the Cocteau Twins.
Lynch's lyrics on Floating into the Night have been the subject of debate, especially from fans and academic studies of Twin Peaks—a television series he co-created and in which several songs from the album are featured. Academic John Richardson considered several of the album's song lyrics to have been written from the point of view of Twin Peaks character Laura Palmer, whose death is the catalyst for events in the series. In The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions Richardson said that Cruise's considerable use of reverb sound as if she sings "from a distance that clearly parallels the distance between the other world that Laura Palmer has fallen into and the primary diegetic world of the other characters"; he considered the lyrics to "Falling"—an instrumental version of which was used as the theme song to the series—as "reinforc[ing] this impression since they can easily be understood as representing Laura's point of view". Cruise, however, considers Lynch's lyrics to have been written about his then-partner, Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini.
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