In one of the more unintentionally-timed releases of the year, Cherry Red will revisit the most popular works of the late singer Julee Cruise, known for her haunting work with the late, influential filmmaker David Lynch.

FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993), available April 25, brings together expanded editions of 1989's Floating Into the Night and 1993's The Voice of Love, both of which were written and produced by the iconoclastic writer/director and his longtime musical collaborator, Angelo Badalamenti. It's on that first album that listeners first heard "Falling," an ethereal piece of dream-pop whose instrumental would become the theme song to Twin Peaks, the groundbreaking TV drama Lynch co-created with Mark Frost. Bonus material includes demos and edits of select singles including "Falling," a Badalamenti and Lynch-produced cover of the Elvis Presley rarity "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" (heard on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World), and a suite of remixes of the track "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart." Frank Deserto has penned liner notes for the collection.

Cruise, a fixture of the New York art and stage scene, got her big break when Badalamenti - who'd remembered her from a Janis Joplin revue they'd contributed to - tapped her to perform on the soundtrack of his first project with Lynch: 1986's Blue Velvet. "Mysteries of Love," written for one of the film's pivotal scenes when a track by This Mortal Coil couldn't be licensed, was a showcase for a side of Cruise's voice that she hadn't often used - a high, ethereal vocal awash in digital flourishes. (Cruise normally saw herself as "a Broadway belter.") The collaboration proved so satisfying that Badalamenti and Lynch offered to create a whole album for her, producing 10 arresting tracks written by the composer with lyrics from the director. Floating Into the Night was a genre-bending affair, mixing dream-pop with jazz arrangements that confounded some of Cruise's closest confidantes. "I took it home for Christmas--and everyone in my family hated it," she later admitted."They were like, 'What are you singing about?' One of my lawyers at the time said, 'This is a novelty.' I said, 'Like Tiny Tim?'"

But, lawyers be damned, the songs from Floating Into the Night became impossible to ignore when Twin Peaks premiered on ABC in 1990. Beyond "Falling," tracks like "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart" and "The World Spins" were prominently featured in the series as score pieces and occasionally diegetic works in the two seasons of the original show and its rapturously received 2017 follow-up Twin Peaks: The Return. Cruise appeared in both series, saw "Falling" hit the Top 10 of the U.K. charts, and even served as musical guest for Saturday Night Live on a very controversial episode featuring comedian Andrew Dice Clay as host. (Cast member Nora Dunn and initial musical guest Sinéad O'Connor boycotted the episode over Clay's sexist, homophobic jokes.)

1993's The Voice of Love continued Cruise's partnership with Badalamenti and Lynch - a slightly more vibe-y sort of album, albeit one whose music was also heard in the Twin Peaks universe, with several of its tracks appearing in the 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Cruise kept a relatively lower profile for the rest of the decade within the context of her own solo career, although she did perform in off-Broadway shows and, most pivotally, was a touring member of The B-52's during Cindy Wilson's hiatus from the group. She recorded two more albums, 2002's The Art of Being a Girl and 2011's My Secret Life, neither of which were worked on by Badalamenti or Lynch. After battling lupus, depression and substance abuses, she took her own life in 2022; she was 65 years old. (Badalamenti died of natural causes later that year at 85, and Lynch, diagnosed with emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after a lifetime of smoking, died last month after evacuating from the southern California wildfires, days from his 79th birthday.)

FALL_FLOAT_LOVE, then, serves as a fitting tribute to all three of these uniquely talented artists - and it'll be available April 25. Pre-orders are available below; as an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993) (Cherry Red QCD2BRED921 (U.K.), 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Disc 1: 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
11. Falling (Demo)
12. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (A Cappella)
13. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12" Mix)
14. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan Dub)
15. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Bonus Beats)
16. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan Single Mix)

Tracks 1-10 released as Warner Bros. 25859, 1989
Track 11 released on Three Demos EP - Sacred Bones SBR-3027, 2018
Tracks 12-15 released on Warner Bros. 12" 0-40027, 1990
Track 16 released on Warner Bros. CD single 9 40027-2, 1990

Disc 2: The Voice of Love +

1. This is Our Night
2. The 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
12. Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
13. Falling (Edit)
14. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Edit)

Tracks 1-11 released as Warner Bros. 45390, 1993
Track 12 released on Until the End of the World (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Warner Bros. 26707, 1991
Track 13 released on Warner Bros. promo CD single PRO-CD-4346, 1990
Track 14 released on Warner Bros. CD single 9 40027-2, 1990