13.13
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::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 13.13 |
| type | studio |
| artist | Lydia Lunch |
| cover | Lydia Lunch - 13.13.jpeg |
| released | June 1982 |
| recorded | {{flatlist |
| genre | Post-punk |
| length | 39:58 |
| label | Ruby (original US release) |
| Situation Two (original UK release) | |
| producer | {{flatlist |
| chronology | Lydia Lunch |
| prev_title | The Agony Is the Ecstacy |
| prev_year | 1982 |
| next_title | In Limbo |
| next_year | 1984 |
| :: |
| name = 13.13 | type = studio | artist = Lydia Lunch | cover = Lydia Lunch - 13.13.jpeg | alt = | released = June 1982 | recorded = {{flatlist|
- July 1981 at Perspective Sound, Sun Valley, California
- August 1981 at Preferred Sound, Woodland Hills, California, United States | venue = | studio = | genre = Post-punk | length = 39:58 | label = Ruby (original US release) Situation Two (original UK release) | producer = {{flatlist|
- 13.13
- Lydia Lunch | chronology = Lydia Lunch | prev_title = The Agony Is the Ecstacy | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = In Limbo | next_year = 1984
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". UK magazine Fact wrote that "sonically it comes over like a more droning, dissolute Stateside cousin of Siouxsie & the Banshees' Juju". The musicians who played on and co-wrote the album had been members of first wave Los Angeles punk band the Weirdos.
Reception
|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = | rev2 = Trouser Press | rev2score = mixed | rev3 = Spin Alternative Record Guide | rev3score = 5/10
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
| headline = Side A | all_writing = 13.13 (Dix Denney, Lydia Lunch, Cliff Martinez and Gregg Williams), except as noted | title1 = Stares to Nowhere | length1 = 4:15 | title2 = 3x3 | length2 = 6:05 | title3 = This Side of Nowhere | writer3 = Lydia Lunch | length3 = 4:15 | title4 = Snakepit Breakdown | writer4 = Lydia Lunch | length4 = 4:07 | length8 = | length10 = | title10 = | length9 = | title9 = | title5 = | title8 = | length7 = | title7 = | length6 = | title6 = | length5 = | total_length = | headline = Side B | title1 = Dance of the Dead Children | writer1 = Lydia Lunch | length1 = 2:49 | title2 = Suicide Ocean | length2 = 5:56 | title3 = Lock Your Door | length3 = 5:27 | title4 = Afraid of Your Company | length4 = 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
::data[format=table] | Chart (1982) | Peak position | |---|---| | UK Indie Chart | 19 | ::
References
References
- "TrouserPress.com :: Lydia Lunch".
- (January 27, 2011). "Lydia Lunch's ''13.13'' Reissued – Fact Music: Music News, New Music.".
- "''13 13'' – Lydia Lunch ".
- Press, Joy. (1995). "Spin Alternative Record Guide". [[Vintage Books]].
- Lazell, Barry. (1997). "Indie Hits 1980–1989". Cherry Red Books.
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