Dean Hurley

Dean Hurley is an American composer, record producer, musician, sound designer, re-recording mixer, and songwriter. He received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the third season of Twin Peaks. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director David Lynch. Hurley has worked on many different types of films as a film score composer, sound supervisor, sound designer, re-recording mixer, sound mixer, and supervising sound editor. Notably he composed the film score of the 2023 feature film Divinity, along with DJ and record producer DJ Muggs.

He produced for the Veils on their album Total Depravity (2016). In 2017, Hurley released the album Anthology Resource Vol. 1: Ã¢ÂÂ³Ã¢ÂÂ³, which features original material created for Twin Peaks, and in 2019 he released Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond on Sacred Bones Records. He has worked with a variety of musicians aside from Lynch and the Veils, such as Romance, John Carpenter, Chromatics, Sky Ferreira, Zola Jesus, Gloria de Oliveira, Dlina Volny, Donovan, Trouble, Chrystabell, Jaye Jayle, Jorja Chalmers, Tiny Ruins, Sam Gendel, among others.

Select filmography

Solo albums

Solo singles

Collaborative albums

Inland Empire (Original Soundtrack) (by David Lynch), DLMC (2007)
The Air is on Fire (by David Lynch), DLMC (2007)
Crazy Clown Time (by David Lynch), Sunday Best (2010)
This Train (by David Lynch and Chrystabell), La Rose Noire (2011)
The Big Dream (by David Lynch), Sunday Best (2013)
Somewhere in the Nowhere (by David Lynch and Chrystabell), Meta Hari (2016)
In Every Dream Home a Heartache (with Romance), Ecstatic (2022)
Oceans of Time (with Gloria de Oliveira), Sacred Bones Records (2022)
River of Dreams (with Romance), Ecstatic (2023)
Cellophane Memories (by Chrystabell and David Lynch), Sacred Bones Records (2024)

Appearances and remixes

Ghost of Love by David Lynch, David Lynch Music Company (2007)
"Dark Night of the Soul" by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch from Dark Night of the Soul, Capitol Records (2010)
"Bad the John Boy" by David Lynch, Sacred Bones Records (2013)
"I'm Waiting Here" by David Lynch and Lykke Li, Sacred Bones Records (2013)
"Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley remix)" from Lost Themes by John Carpenter, Sacred Bones Records (2015)
"Dream Wave" by Tiny Ruins, Bella Union (2016)
"Snake Eyes" by Trouble from ', Rhino Records (2017)

"Slow 30s Room" (with David Lynch) from ', Rhino Records (2017)
"Blue Girl (Dean Hurley remix)" from Camera by Chromatics, Italians Do It Better (2018)
The Flame of Love by David Lynch and Jack Cruz, Sacred Bones Records (2020)
"Saturday (Dean Hurley remix)" from Shadow (Remixes) by Chromatics, Italians Do It Better (2021)