album's title has been theorized by Noisey creative director Eddy Moretti as being related to the "Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit of Negativity", a concept for personal anger and fear featured in Lynch's 2006 book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. Release Crazy Clown Time was released worldwide on November 7, 2011. It was released on PIAS America in the U.S. and Sunday Best in Europe and made available on CD, double LP and as a digital download. Special editions of the album were released internationally, including a collector's edition CD in Europe with a 16-page booklet; a CD in Japan with the bonus track "I Have a Radio"; and an iTunes release with the bonus track "Sparkle Lounge Blues". A limited-edition "Super-Deluxe" box set, including a double LP and single CD with artwork by David Lynch and a 24-page book of lyrics, was released in January 2012, followed by a digital-only deluxe edition on August 6 that included several remixes of the album's songs by Skream, Moby, Underworld, Sasha, Trentemøller and Visionquest. Four singles from Crazy Crown Time were released. A double A-side single, "Good Day Today"/"I Know", was released in November 2010 to critical acclaim in the U.S. and the UK. and "Speed Roadster" was made available for Lynch's official website in 2011. "Noah's Ark", a single-track 12-inch single featuring a remix of the song by Moby was released in April 2012; "Pinky's Dream" was released in August and featured two remixes by Trentemøller and Visionquest, as well as a previously unreleased remix of "Stone's Gone Up" by Thyte. Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 32 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". AllMusic reviewer Heather Phares wrote that the album wasn't as "accessible" as Lynch's previous collaborations but is "another example of his ability to put his unmistakable stamp on every art form he attempts"; Phares selected "Pinky's Dream", "Good Day Today" and "Strange and Unproductive Thinking" as the album's highlights and rated it three-and-a-half-out-of-five stars. Writing for the A.V. Club, critic Matt Wild said Crazy Clown Time "asks an awful lot of fans … namely, to accept Lynch as a singer" but praised the "jaw-dropping [opening track]" and concluded that the album "fits in nicely with Lynch's untidy and constantly evolving body of work." A four-out-of-five-star review