LYDIA LUNCH – Big Sexy Noise (LP, Sartorial Records)
Posted: September 12th, 2009, by JGRAMIt is always a relief to discover that a legend of the scene still “has it.” Split over a sexy side and a noisy side Lydia Lunch once unveils yet another set of vocal styling. Spread over six songs this beautiful piece of twelve inch vinyl is a nasty and distinct return to form. With James Johnston and Terry Edwards on board there is little chance of this sounding bad.
Proceedings open up with “Another Man Comin’ (While The Bed Is Still Warm)” and the greatest song Royal Trux never recorded. Herein Lunch is almost rapping as she sounds more like a hip witch than ever and dirty with it. The collision is heavy bass, dark Hammond and jagged guitar stabs make for a funky soup .
Soon saxophones are added to mix as a nightmare smoky lounge scenario broaches proceedings all in a Bad Seeds setting. By the time the Sexy Side comes to a close the saxophones sound as if they are initiating some kind of rabid violent act of female empowerment.
The Noisy Side lives up to its billing providing a more dynamic threesome starting with the aural drowning that is “Baby-Faced Killer”. The sentiments do not improve any as a distortion heavy cover of Lou Reed’s “Kill Your Sons” attempts to melt my stereo. Soon the reality of proceedings hits that the quality of the music is far outweighing the standard of the words being spoken. Regardless of this fact it still falls/comes together as positive but hostile musical act.
It is now Sunday night and I am still writing this fucking review long after I have purchased it. In the distance some bozo is playing “Radio Gaga” by Queen at some ridiculous volume and it is making me sick. With view to drowning it out and representing on my own behalf I am playing this at a creasing volume and plainly it just work. Now I await the feeling of a boot being thrown through my open window as the person that just turned off his Queen record retaliates. Oh course that person needs to finish borking their partner first.
Thesaurus moment: decadent.
JGRAM
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