Volar Records announces new David Lynch tribute single feat. Jay Reatard & Lindsay Shutt b/w Cody Blanchard (Shannon and The Clams)
STREAM: Jay Reatard & Lindsay Shutt - "In Heaven" (from Eraserhead) -
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"In Heaven," a cover by Jay Reatard and Lindsay Shutt of the Lady in the Radiator song from the 1977 film Eraserhead, the first feature by David Lynch, will be seeing its first official release on vinyl by Volar Records in June 2025. Lynch, who passed away recently on January 16th, 2025 at the age of 78, was one of the most revered filmmakers of the past five decades. Lynch was considered a visionary, with his films The Elephant Man (1980), the mystery thriller Blue Velvet (1986) and the neo-noir Mulholland Drive (2001) earning him Oscar nominations for Best Director. His 1990 film Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera Dune (1984), the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the road movie The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental thriller Inland Empire (2006).
Along with Mark Frost, he created the hit surrealist TV show Twin Peaks, which was nominated for five Emmys, including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. His acting career included roles on Twin Peaks, The Cleveland Show (2010–13), and Louie (2012), and in the films Lucky (2017) and The Fabelmans (2022). He directed music videos for Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, Sparks, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails and Donovan, and commercials for Dior, YSL, Gucci and the New York City Department of Sanitation.
Lynch also worked as a musician, releasing solo albums, and as a furniture designer, cartoonist, animator, photographer, and author. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, he founded the David Lynch Foundation to fund meditation lessons for at-risk populations. A lifelong smoker, he died from complications of emphysema after being evacuated from his home due to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
"In Heaven" was penned for Eraserhead by musician Peter Ivers, whose albums Terminal Love (1974) and Peter Ivers (1976) were released by Warner Bros. He shared bills with the likes of New York Dolls, Fleetwood Mac, and John Cale, and wrote songs recorded by Diana Ross and the Pointer Sisters.
Memphis-based musician James "Jimmie" Lee Lindsay Jr. aka Jay Reatard, born May 1st, 1980, began his career as a teenager heavily influenced by garage rock band The Oblivians. He adopted the Reatard moniker and recorded his first demo when he was fifteen, which caught the attention of Oblivians member Eric Friedl, who would go on to release Jay's first solo 7" EP Get Real Stupid under the name The Reatards on his Goner Records imprint, and later The Reatards became a trio and released their first LP Teenage Hate, also on Goner Records.
Over time, Jay played in a number of other projects like the synth-heavy Lost Sounds, Bad Times, Final Solutions, Angry Angles, and The Lids, and in 2004 formed the record label Shattered Records with his ex-girlfriend Alix Brown. In 2006 he released his first solo LP under his name Jay Reatard on In the Red, and after a lengthy tour in support of that album, he signed to Matador Records in 2008 after various major labels courted him. His final album, Watch Me Fall, was released on Matador in 2009, and on January 13, 2010, Jay was found dead in his home at the age of 29. The documentary Better Than Something: Jay Reatard, was released in 2012.
Reatard self-recorded the cover for "In Heaven" with his then-roommate Lindsay Shutt in July 2008 at their home in Memphis, TN after Shutt rented the film for the first time and became immediately enamored with it. Reatard and Shutt both sing on the track, with Reatard playing guitar and drums and Shutt playing bass. The song somehow never saw an official release, until now.
The initial 7" pressing will be a limited run of 2000 copies, 1000 violet vinyl and 1000 black. The accompanying b-side is Cody Blanchard of Shannon and the Clams covering The Ramones' "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement," which will be released digitally in May 2025.
"In Heaven" can be streamed and downloaded exclusively for now on Volar Records' Bandcamp, where the 7" can be preordered as well.
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