Smoke in the Shadows [Import]

Product Description
Smoke In The Shadows is the first new full-length musical outing from aesthetic polymath Lydia Lunch since 1999's Matrikamantra. Recorded in Los Angeles over the last two years & produced in conjunction with avant-guitar star Nels Cline or Len Del Rio & Tommy Grenas respectively, Smoke In The Shadows finds Lunch inhabiting noir-ish settings of plush but scorched swing & moody jazz atmospheres reminiscent of her classic Queen Of Siam album. Breakin' Beats. 2004.

Smoke in the Shadows,Lydia Lunch,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Cycling Cynicism with Doom and Boom

Smoke in the Shadows Lydia Lunch Manufacturer: Atavistic Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | Vinyl Records | American Punk | British Punk | Emo | Garage Punk | Hardcore | Post Hardcore | Proto Punk | Punk | Punk Revival | Punk-Pop | Riot Grrl | Ska Punk | Straight Edge General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Honeymoon in Red Scarnella ASIN: B000667GRS Release Date: 2004-11-23

Tracks:

1. Hangover Hotel
2. Smoke in the Shadows
3. Johnny Behind the Deuce
4. I Love How You...
5. Touch My Evil
6. Lost World
7. Sway
8. Gone City
9. Blame
10. Pass Like Night
11. Portrait Of The Minus Man
12. Trick Baby
13. Hot Tip

Album Description

Flavored in her hard-boiled, post-mod Raymond Chandler style, but running an eclectic gamut with help from the Anubian Lights production team in channeling beats, diseased invectives, word projectiles, and twisted cabaret noir. "Smoke" delivers serious night music and features performances and contributions by Nels and Alex Cline, Carla Bozulich, Vinny Golia, Terry Edwards, and NYC avatar Adele Bertei. Presented in a deluxe 4-color 24-page booklet, and utterly perfect for the 3 a.m. social extension of your choice, or perhaps a soundtrack for the skeletons in your closet.

Customer Reviews:

Cycling Cynicism with Doom and Boom.......2005-01-19

Part of NYC's "No Wave" movement of the late 1970's spoken-word performance artist and confrontationalist Lydia Lunch began her career at the not-so-tender age of 16 as the lead vocalist for Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Since then,she had collaborated with Nick Cave and Roland S. Howard from the Birthday Party, Sonic Youth ("Death Valley '69"), Jim "Foetus" Thirwell on a variety of projects including Stinkfist, and photographer/director Richard Kern. Lunch has also authored books such as "Incriminating Evidence" and "Adulterers Anonymous" (with Exene Cervenka).

Lunch's latest musical sacrifice,"Smoke in the Shadows" is a notably jazzy affair and probrobly her most commercially acessible effort to date. Like an investigator at the scene of a crime, she portrays a femme fatale with a penetrating stare and sultry,breathy come-on. Her obsessions continue to focus on doomed relationships complete with visions of guns,explosives,shotgun shells,cigarette butts,burning beds,car crashes,high heels and bottles of bourbon. She is an angry woman indeed. And her cynical,confessional lyrics are full of venom.

Lunch has assembled an infamous cast of characters and New York "jazz guys" to accompany her spoken ranting~guitarist Nels Cline (Mike Watt,WILCO) and his brother Alex on drums, Niels Van Hoorn on saxophone (Legendary Pink Dots) and Andel Bertei (The Contortions) as backing vocalist on several tracks. Other instruments include a vibraphone,upright bass,alto flute,baritone and alto saxophones,a trombone and trumpet. Together they create a moody and haunting atmosphere like a soundtrack to a David Lynch film.

In the end,Lunch acts as a predatory powder keg filled with violent verbal attacks,preying on other animals~in this case men. She appears to be tough yet vulnerable,callous and completely carried away by a desire to confess her sins and vituperate the faults of others.

Average customer rating:

Smoke in the Shadows Lydia Lunch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | Vinyl Records | American Punk | British Punk | Emo | Garage Punk | Hardcore | Post Hardcore | Proto Punk | Punk | Punk Revival | Punk-Pop | Riot Grrl | Ska Punk | Straight Edge General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000620N0Y Release Date: 2004-11-02

Tracks:

1. Hangover Hotel
2. Smoke in the Shadows
3. Johnny Behind the Deuce
4. I Love How You...
5. Touch My Evil
6. Lost World
7. Sway
8. Gone City
9. Blame
10. Pass Like Night
11. Portrait of the Minus Man
12. Trick Baby
13. Hot Tip

Album Description

Smoke In The Shadows is the first new full-length musical outing from aesthetic polymath Lydia Lunch since 1999's Matrikamantra. Recorded in Los Angeles over the last two years & produced in conjunction with avant-guitar star Nels Cline or Len Del Rio & Tommy Grenas respectively, Smoke In The Shadows finds Lunch inhabiting noir-ish settings of plush but scorched swing & moody jazz atmospheres reminiscent of her classic Queen Of Siam album. Breakin' Beats. 2004.

Average customer rating:

Smoke Shadows Manufacturer: J.D. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA3W2Q Release Date: 2004-06-08

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