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Thomas Truax - Songs From The Films Of David Lynch
Opening with a wistful cover of Chris Isaak’s lovelorn Wicked Game, Thomas Truax makes it clear from the start that his aim is not to make better versions of his covered, just his own. Indeed, this has become a new favourite of mine, much preferring its grittier guttersome vocals and lone tinny drums to its poppy original.
So what the hell is going on with this album? In an Interview ,Thomas Truax (troo-acks) told The Beat Surrender that the idea for such an album came about in a pub with friends not long after meeting David Lynch himself. A pal joked that Thomas’ previous three albums would be great on Lynch films and what would it be like if that happened? The cogs in his head turning, Thomas Truax decided to take it one step further and cover a selection of track from director Lynch’s films.
In Audrey’s Dance – taken from Twin Peaks and composed by Angelo Badalamenti – Truax has revamped the track with gusto. With a strong and creepy horror-esque tune, Audrey’s Dance wouldn’t be out of place on a Tim Burton soundtrack.
Thomas is a self-penned mad scientist. Not content with writing his own material or working on his own unique sound, he is an engineering maverick of the most eccentric kind. On stage you can find him playing alongside The Hornicator, a strange microphone-cum-gramophone, and Mother Superior, his mechanical ringside drummer complete with bicycle wheel. On his recorded work, of course one isn’t any wiser of his garbage-trawling hobby or able to imagine soundcheck hell.
- Thomas Truax
- Songs From The Films Of David Lynch (2009)
- Category: Album
- Label: Sl / Psycho Teddy
- Reviewed by: dearbarbie
- Published on: 18 May 2009
- Photography by: Kimberley Sklinar
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesBlack Tambourine – originally performed by Beck – is the weakest track on the album, but that’s probably me as a Beck fan. He’s got ‘woo’s and ‘woah’s all over the shop which is all well and good, and the track fits in very well to the overall album’s style. Bowie’s ‘I’m Deranged’ is a gloomier track – Truax sounding heartbroken, dramatic, dark and forlorn – and is excellent, especially with the touch of Spanish guitar. Other tracks on the album include Blue Velvet and In Dreams.
For Lynch fans, for Truax fans, Tom Waits lovers and Nick Cave stalkers (and just general surrealists) alike, this album will make your collection.
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