If David Lynch's Eraserhead were featured on any film studies class agenda, the professor would probably have some words about the ethereal soundtrack and the landscape it provided for the underground film. And now, that soundtrack is available Sept. 16 for public consumption.
The dizzying portholes that seem to transport the audience into a projected reality (one that they are very aware of in the sense of an audience watching an alternate reality in the form of a film projection) is central to Eraserhead's thesis.
A quintessential mad-man, maybe, but David Lynch's 1977 classic is a pictoral masterpiece delicately detailed by its underlying soundtrack. The music accompaniment (even in moments of static) was undeniably calculated by Lynch and Alan R. Splet, it even took years of discipline to master.
But this will be an expansion to the canon of movie soundtracks that are pivotal for any collection, on par with the like of Jonny Greenwood and his There Will Be Blood suite.
Thus, from Sacred Bones Records comes David Lynch and Alan R. Splet's Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack Recording, which will be made available as a deluxe CD mid-September. Pre-orders can be filed here.
If you need further proof of its musical backdrop, listen below (and maybe keep the lights on).
