Floating Into the Night (1989)

Angelo Badalamenti's music, David Lynch's lyrics and Julee Cruise's weightless voice: this is the sound of Twin Peaks before and beyond the show, with Falling supplying the series' theme in instrumental form. Reverb-soaked guitar and slow synth pads hang like fog in a roadhouse long after closing time. The sweetness is the trick. Every love song seems to have something slightly wrong standing just behind it. Intensity: gentle and seductive, the easiest record here for anyone who wants dream logic without any harshness.