D4VID LYNCH - THE B1G DRE4M (2013)

Lynch's second studio album makes a nice extension--and counterpoint--to the mood provided by yesterday's Sleep Party post. The track with Lykke Li is a standout, but there are plenty of skewed blues structures, half-spoken vocals, reverb-washed guitar and moody echo to pull one into this album in a sonic sense. The lyrics, of course, are something else again. Here both the beauties and the frustrations of "dream logic" become evident, as do the pleasures and pitfalls of a blog dedicated to this oxymoron.

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