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10.0
56640
10.0 |
The Skinny
Less like a self-indulgent project from a director and artist who has decided to experiment with a new form, and more like a youthful artist, full of promise, finding his distinctive voice for the first time
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9.0
57601
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
When it happens Lynch’s music is capable of moulding, following whichever feeling is carrying you without disappearing completely
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8.2
56783
8.2 |
Paste Magazine
For all its varied sonic textures and hues, Lynch does what he is best known for with every bit of art he lays his hands to: sustaining a singular vision and mood throughout
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8.0
56638
8.0 |
Time Out
If ‘Crazy Clown Time’ was his musical ‘Eraserhead’ – supremely creepy but almost devoid of plot – then ‘The Big Dream’ is more of a ‘Blue Velvet’, matching the atmosphere with movement and development
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8.0
56672
8.0 |
The 405
A languid, unhurried pace has taken over, a sign perhaps that Lynch feels more at ease being front and centre in a discipline where previously he was content to lurk in the background
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8.0
56674
8.0 |
The Guardian
Believe it or not, this is a step towards the mainstream for Lynch
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8.0
56686
8.0 |
Evening Standard
A curious piece of work, a reverb-drenched collection of blues-tinged rockabilly
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8.0
56716
8.0 |
musicOMH
A thoroughly decent album from start to finish
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7.5
56747
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Although The Big Dream is markedly less peculiar than Crazy Clown Time, and in turn appearing less adventurous, it’s also considerably more focused
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7.0
56734
7.0 |
All Music
Even if his take on the blues is far from straightforward, this might be the most accessible set of songs associated with Lynch to date
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7.0
56743
7.0 |
Clash
This is David Lynch’s second solo album and already he’s displaying maturity
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7.0
56677
7.0 |
DIY
It is deeply sinister and often quite unpleasant, but it’s a compelling unpleasantness, one that draws you in and transfixes you. An intriguing album befitting of a fascinating man
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7.0
56644
7.0 |
NME
There's enough musical ambition, heartbreak and menace on 'The Big Dream; to keep Lynch nerds absorbed
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7.0
56936
7.0 |
FasterLouder
Whilst The Big Dream reinforces his somewhat one-sided sound, it’s a sound which engraves itself in your memory
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7.0
57003
7.0 |
PopMatters
At 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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7.0
57857
7.0 |
No Ripcord
The Big Dream doesn’t come off as much like an album as it does a place. It’s more of an unconscious escape hatch that Lynch has constructed with intangible aural elements
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7.0
56637
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This is a all as you would expect from Lynch – brilliant, inconsistent, pleasing, frustrating
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6.7
56749
6.7 |
A.V. Club
Most of the songs on The Big Dream are sufficient evidence that Lynch’s music deserves a listen on its own terms, separate from a footnote to his film career
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6.3
56720
6.3 |
Pitchfork
It’s difficult to imagine returning to this album months or even weeks from now, once the initial charge of “I’m listening to a David Lynch album” has worn off
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6.0
56726
6.0 |
The Scotsman
This collection of prowling monologues, warped with reverb and other effects, coheres to Lynch’s description of “modern blues”
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6.0
56731
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s uncertain music from an uncertain man, an artifact that will continue to influence growing pains from the many Lynchian dreamers
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6.0
56639
6.0 |
The Fly
‘The Big Dream’ is – let’s be honest – among the tamer conceits to have escaped Lynch’s mind
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6.0
57080
6.0 |
Under The Radar
This is an unrelentingly difficult record, with all semblances of pop music and even melody eschewed for a Hound of the Baskervilles trudge through a gothic swamp
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6.0
57192
6.0 |
Q
Delivering macabre blues narratives in a reedy, distorted voice. Print edition only
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5.0
57213
5.0 |
Uncut
Might have worked better with a talented female collaborator on the mic. Print edition only
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5.0
56983
5.0 |
Fact
With a few more such thoughtfully crafted moments The Big Dream might have been an entirely adequate sidenote in Lynch’s ever-growing oeuvre. As it stands, it is barely that
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5.0
56934
5.0 |
The Quietus
The Big Dream is vaguely interesting, but not very interesting. Its noises are kinda weird, but not deeply weird. The Big Dream won't blow your mind
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5.0
56668
5.0 |
Slant Magazine
Briefly amusing, consistently strange, but rarely resonant
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4.0
56690
4.0 |
The Independent
It's a sound with all flesh stripped off the bone, but Lynch himself sounds like an intellectual playing bogus trailer-trash
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4.0
56713
4.0 |
The Observer
Not until the penultimate track and Lykke Li's final breathy cameo do real glimmers of melody pierce through the fug
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