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. In 2017, Hurley released the album Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△, 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.

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Awards and nominations

Discography

Solo albums
  • Days of Thunder and Rain, self-released
  • Anthology Resource Vol. 1, Sacred Bones Records
  • Anthology Resource Vol. II, Sacred Bones Records
  • Concrete Feather, Boomkat Editions
Solo singles
  • "Our Day Will Come", Sacred Bones Records
Collaborative albums
  • Inland Empire , DLMC
  • The Air is on Fire, DLMC
  • Crazy Clown Time, Sunday Best
  • This Train, La Rose Noire
  • The Big Dream, Sunday Best
  • Somewhere in the Nowhere, Meta Hari
  • In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Ecstatic
  • Oceans of Time, Sacred Bones Records
  • River of Dreams, Ecstatic
  • Cellophane Memories, Sacred Bones Records
Appearances and remixes