If you ever tuned into David Lynch’s cult mystery drama Twin Peaks, then you are well aware of composer Angelo Badalamenti’s instantly iconic score. Every episode of the short-lived show kicked off with scenic views of the not-everything-is-as-it-seems town, including shots of The Packard Saw Mill and The Great Northern Hotel. Elevating these gorgeous shots to greater heights? Badalamenti’s score, which happened to mesh perfectly with Lynch’s overall vision for the show; the sounds and songs of Twin Peaks were grandiose, eerie, edgy, disturbed even. It’s been confirmed that Badalamenti is teaming up with Lynch again for the now-in-production third season of Twin Peaks, coming to Showtime sometime next year. For now, though, there’s this.

Enter Xiu Xiu, an American “experimental noise pop group” out of San Jose, California. The band was commissioned by Australia’s Gallery of Modern Art to perform the music from Twin Peaks during its David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition. It went on to play these cover tracks on tour, and then a record came to be. Xiu Xiu released The Music of Twin Peaks, an album featuring 12 tracks covering the original score composed by Badalamenti. Turns out frontman Jamie Stewart is a big fan of the series.

“The music of Twin Peaks is everything that we aspire to as musicians and is everything that we want to listen to as music fans,” Stewart told Draft House. It is romantic, it is terrifying, it is beautiful, it is unnervingly sexual. The idea of holding the ‘purity’ of the 1950s up to the cold light of a violent moon and exposing the skull beneath the frozen, worried smile has been a stunning influence on us. There is no way that we can recreate Badalamenti and Lynch’s music as it was originally played. It is too perfect and we could never do its replication justice. Our attempt will be to play the parts of the songs as written, meaning, following the harmony melody but to arrange in the way that it has shaped us as players.”

Having sampled a couple cuts from the record, including “Falling” and “Into The Night,” I am happy to report that Xiu Xiu has successfully revitalized the sounds of Twin Peaks. The band clearly wasn’t afraid to experiment with the source material, stretching and contorting Badalamenti’s score while retaining Lynch’s inherently dark, distorted and chaotic vision. It’s a dreamscape, and it’s one you simply don’t want to wake from; that’s how I felt while binging Twin Peaks on Netflix, and that’s the same feeling I get listening to Xui Xui’s take on the music.

Here’s how to get it. Nab a digital copy of Xiu Xiu’s The Music of Twin Peaks over at Polyvinyl Records for eight bucks, or you can preorder a vinyl + MP3 bundle due out in August. The LP originally released last month on Record Store Day but quickly sold out. If you’re interested in seeing the band perform the songs live, it’ll be doing so this summer in San Fransisco at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Oh and one more thing. That press photo embedded above featuring Stewart and his bandmates Angela Seo and Shayna Dunkelman? It was shot by Joan Chen, or you might know her better as Josie Packard!