The Pacific North West and the English North West are damp, mossy, riddled with steep, unexpected valleys, dotted with abandoned mills, and frequently cloaked in mist. Most of the year you’d be wise to wear waterproofs. David Lynch set Twin Peaks in the former; it’s not a great leap to imagine it being re-cast and set in the latter. As for the soundtrack? Well, that’s what this album is about.Charlatans singer Tim Burgess and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley have known each for three decades now. Aside from a shared love of Factory Records and the Fall, they both consider Twin Peaks to be the greatest TV show ever. They also share a love of cafes, but Tim has gone the extra mile and set up the Tim Peaks Diner, a huge draw at festivals, combining tea, coffee and music. This, then, is a soundtrack for the Tim Peaks Diner after dusk – put a couple of quid in the jukebox and the plangent guitars of Durutti Column, Dean McPhee & Galaxie 500 colour the air.

• 1. Choci Loni - Young Marble Giants
• 2. House With a Hundred Rooms - the Chills
• 3. Lips That Would Kiss (Form Prayers To Broken Stone) - Durutt
• 4. Yanks - the Gist
• 5. Hunros (A Dream) - Gwenno
• 6. I Had To Say This - the Clientele
• 7. I Love You (Restrained In a Moment) - the Royal Family & the
• 8. Betty's Lament - Isan
• 9. Slow Motion - Jane Weaver
• 10. Fuel - Echo & the Bunnymen
• 11. Flowers - Galaxie 500
• 12. The Broken Fall - Gnac
• 13. Blue Dress - Birdie
• 14. Dog - El Perro Del Mar
• 15. Fairy Tales - Stockholm Monsters
• 16. Different Now - Chastity Belt
• 17. A Year With No Head - Blue Orchids
• 18. Ten Years - Bracken
• 19. Sheila - She Beats In My Heart - the Fates
• 20. Sky Burial - Dean McPhee