Angelo Badalamenti's lush score for David Lynch's groundbreaking 1990 TV series, Twin Peaks was a large part of the show's atmosphere - the opening theme, with that huge reverberating guitar part and the synthesized melody is like a romantic soap opera theme on a grand, epic scale and it set the mood for the show over the placid visuals of the small-town.

Synthesizers play a major role in the music, a warm, thickly textured sound that drifts with ease between moods depending on the instruments it is juxtaposed with - Laura Palmer's Theme passes through dark, brooding synthesized passages into tragic piano crescendos, and the theme for "Audrey's Dance"  is whirling and disorienting lounge-jazz that oppressively fills the sound spectrum.

And, of course there are the three gorgeous and haunting Julee Cruise (R.I.P.) vocal tracks - The Nightingale, Into The Night and Falling - taken from her 1989 album, Floating Into The Night - which complemented the distinctive mysterious and ominous atmosphere of Twin Peaks to perfection.

It may be impossible to think of Twin Peaks without hearing Badalamenti, but his score has taken on a consistently inspiring life of its own. “You could put that opening theme to a really bland piece of footage and that footage is suddenly going to feel more meaningful,” says Rachel Zeffira. “You could listen to it a million times and it would never get irritating or lose any emotion."

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Tracklist:
A1 Twin Peaks Theme
A2 Laura Palmer's Theme
A3 Audrey's Dance
A4 The Nightingale
A5 Freshly Squeezed
B1 The Bookhouse Boys
B2 Into The Night
B3 Night Life In Twin Peaks
B4 Dance Of The Dream Man
B5 Love Theme From Twin Peaks
B6 Falling