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13.13 is the second album by American artist Lydia Lunch, released in June 1982 by record label Ruby.
Content
Trouser Press writes that the album "[revives] the grind-and-caterwaul of Teenage Jesus as filtered through Metal Box-era PiL, all deviant guitar and rolling rhythms".http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=lydia_lunch TrouserPress.com :: Lydia Lunch Payes Robert Sheridan David Grant Steven Robbins Ira TrouserPress.com July 21, 2016 UK magazine Fact wrote that "sonically it comes over like a more droning, dissolute Stateside cousin of Siouxsie & the Banshees' Juju".http://www.factmag.com/2011/01/27/lydia-lunchs-1313-reissued/ Lydia Lunch's 13.13 Reissued – Fact Music: Music News, New Music. January 27, 2011 Fact August 16, 2016 The musicians who played on and co-wrote the album had been members of first wave Los Angeles punk band the Weirdos.
Reception
AllMusic 2 5http://www.allmusic.com/album/13-13-mw0000267071 13 13 – Lydia Lunch | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic AllMusic August 16, 2016 Trouser Press mixed Spin Alternative Record Guide 5/10Lydia Lunch Joy Press Spin Alternative Record Guide Spin Alternative Record Guide Eric Weisbard Craig Marks Vintage Books 1995 0-679-75574-8 232–234
13.13 has divided critics. Trouser Press wrote that "Like her previous stuff, it manages to be simultaneously fascinating and annoying." In its retrospective review, Fact magazine qualified it as a "masterpiece".
Track listing
Side A 13.13 (Dix Denney, Lydia Lunch, Cliff Martinez and Gregg Williams), except as noted Stares to Nowhere 4:15 3x3 6:05 This Side of Nowhere Lydia Lunch 4:15 Snakepit Breakdown Lydia Lunch 4:07
Side B Dance of the Dead Children Lydia Lunch 2:49 Suicide Ocean 5:56 Lock Your Door 5:27 Afraid of Your Company 7:04
Personnel
13.13
Dix Denney – guitar
Lydia Lunch – vocals, piano, production
Cliff Martinez – drums, percussion
Greg Williams – bass guitar
Production and additional personnel
13.13 – production
David Arnoff – photography
Bob Blank – engineering
Steven McDonald – engineering
James Partie – photography
Jeff Price – design
Thom Wilson – engineering
Charts
Chart (1982) Peakposition UK Indie Chart19Barry Lazell http://cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/l.htm Indie Hits 1980–1989 Cherry Red Books 1997 September 5, 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100105083758/http://cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/l.htm January 5, 2010
References
External links
50402 13.13 album
Lydia Lunch official website
Category:1982 albums
Category:Lydia Lunch albums
Category:Ruby Records albums
Category:Situation Two albums