Floating Into the Night

Floating Into the Night (1989) is Julee Cruise's debut studio album, produced and scored by Angelo Badalamenti with lyrical and atmospheric contributions from David Lynch. The record fuses dream pop and ethereal wave with ambient pop textures and touches of dark jazz and jazz pop, characterized by slow tempos, reverb-soaked vocals, and lush string and synth arrangements that create a cinematic, nocturnal atmosphere. Tracks from the album, most notably "Falling," were used in Lynch's Twin Peaks and the record helped define the moody, atmospheric sound of the Cruise-Badalamenti-Lynch collaborations.