Jocelyn Montgomery with David Lynch - Lux Vivens (The Music of Hildegard von Bingen) (1998)

Related:
Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night (1989) + The Voice of Love (1993)
Chrysta Bell - This Train (2011)

Haunting, centuries-old vocal works sung with reverence and grace by UK musician Jocelyn Montgomery, and accompanied by cavernous dark ambience, lush strings, and more, courtesy of one Mr. David Lynch.

Track listing:
1. Flame and Vision
2. Sapientie
3. O Tu Illustrata
4. Et Ideo
5. Viridissima
6. Battle and Aftermath
7. Gloria Patri
8. Lux Vivens
9. Deus Enim
10. Clarissima
11. Orzchis
12. Caritas
13. Kyrie
14. Hodie
15. Alleluia

Imprisoned in flesh

You should also hear:

Jocelyn Pook -
Deluge (1997)

Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy -
Immortal Memory (2004)

Chrysta Bell - This Train (2011)

An album of darkly alluring, hypnotic, Americana-infused dream pop. Yes, it is produced by David Lynch, whose haunted compositions always sound better when fronted by tragic, emotive chanteuses (see also: "Pinky's Dream", "I'm Waiting Here", Julee Cruise's first two records). Really stoked on this one, can't believe it took me so long to hear about it!

Track listing:
1. This Train
2. Right Down to You
3. I Die
4. Swing with Me
5. Angel Star
6. Friday Night Fly
7. Down by Babylon
8. Real Love
9. Bird of Flames
10. Polish Poem
11. The Truth Is

I got a glow on me, baby
Glow on me, baby
When you hold me tight

Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night (1989) + The Voice of Love (1993)

Two essential albums of ambient, lounge-y vocal jazz. Angelic, reverb-drenched vocals drift over sparse drums, lush synths, and jazzy horns. Written by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, music from these albums was featured in the show Twin Peaks (the show's opening theme is an instrumental version of "Falling") as well as in the movie, Twin Peaks: Firewalk with Me, and as one might expect, it's quite beautiful and melodramatic, but subtle and not-so-subtle instances of harmonic dissonance make it as skin-crawling as it is soothing. I cannot recommend these albums enough, ESPECIALLY if you're a fan of Twin Peaks/David Lynch who has somehow slept on them.

Track listing:
-Floating into the Night-
1. Floating
2. Falling
3. I Remember
4. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart
5. Mysteries of Love
6. Into the Night
7. I Float Alone
8. The Nightingale
9. The Swan
10. The World Spins
-The Voice of Love-
1. This Is Our Night
2. Space for Love
3. Movin' In on You
4. Friends for Life
5. Up in Flames
6. Kool Kat Walk
7. Until the End of the World
8. She Would Die for Love
9. In My Other World
10. Questions in a World of Blue
11. The Voice of Love

Was it me?
Was it you?