Cordelia Gartside dives into a watery mass of sonic expression on “laura palmer”

There is an indelible link between the sound, story and visual language of David Lynch’s work. However, it is not so easy to compress those sonic textures and lyrical themes into a concise, three-minute-and-sixteen-second alternative pop song. “We saw Fire Walk with Me in this crazy cinema, it’s from the 1920s with these red velvet seats and peeling wallpaper,” Gartside tells BEST FIT. “As we watched the film, I could feel my life changing in real time. I came away and I was kind of incapacitated for three days. I couldn’t talk or do much, and the song came out of that period of stillness.” Turning the lyrical switch from "annihilate her" to "illuminate her", Gartside explores the need to be seen despite a feeling of internal turbulence. Behind the angst of her vocal, a throb of sound builds. “So much of what it became was about trying to create a soundscape, rather than a song with the band,” she explains. “Like trying to create feeling through textural noise rather than melodic lines, which is a really new experience for me.” It's an idea clearly executed on the final track, as layers of synthesizer, guitar, bass and percussion mesh together in order to create a relentless wall o...