Earlier this week, David Lynch surprise-released a characteristically bizarre short film, What Did Jack Do? in which he plays a hardboiled cop interrogating an unlikely murder suspect: a monkey named Jack Cruz. Not only does Jack talk back to the cop in the film, he also sings, and now Lynch and the suit-wearing monkey have released a special seven-inch single via Sacred Bones.
Written by Lynch and Dean Hurley, both tracks — “True Love’s Flame” and “Dancin’ in the World of Love” — are hilariously sentimental ballads filled with slow, soft drums and saccharine strings. Jack’s voice is a ridiculous back-of-the-throat croon and it’s truly a joy to close your eyes and envision a tiny monkey singing, “I’m walking with you/I’m walking in the world of love.”
“True Love’s Flame” and “Dancin’ in the World of Love” are both available to stream and purchase digitally via BandCamp. A physical seven-inch 45 RPM vinyl single is also available to preorder, and will be released this spring.
What Did Jack Do? marked Lynch’s first project since the third season revival of Twin Peaks. His last traditional theatrical feature was 2006’s Inland Empire.