LYDIA LUNCH - QUEEN OF SIAM (LP, album, RED) - NEW

After the demise of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch launched her solo career with Queen Of Siam, arguably her greatest LP. In true No Wave style, the album is a mishmash of irritants, but her palette is far broader here, lurching from slow dirges, excessive feminist exhortations, and raucous personal purges to a touch of disco and lounge music exoticism, as conjured by Voidoids/Lou Reed guitarist Robert Quine, Contortions bassist Jack Ruby, and John Cale’s drummer, Douglas Browne. Spirited, surprisingly broad and defiantly dissonant, Queen Of Siam’s dense layers were designed to provoke and inflame; listen closely to fully decode.

TRACKLIST

SIDE A 

MECHANICAL FLATTERY 

GLOOMY SUNDAY 

TIED AND TWIST 

SPOOKY 

LOS BANDITOS 

SIDE B

ATOMIC BONGOS 

LADY SCARFACE 

A CRUISE TO THE MOON 

CARNIVAL FAT MAN 

KNIVES IN THE DRAIN 

BLOOD OF TIN