Noise music and no-wave are just two facets of Lydia Lunch’s oeuvre. This minimalist album from 1985 for the still controversial Richard Kern film ‘The Right Side Of My Brain’ has an uncanny calm, but is no less dark or disturbing for that.
Small blood tricklings of piano ostinatos merge with tapering bass clarinet and creepy crawly guitar lines. Hamilton and Lunch wrap these little infected rat scurry -scurry -scurry sounds insidiously into your brain.
I managed as a teenage girl to completely freak myself out listening to it in the dark on a winter night. Surely there can be no greater a recommendation than that. It’s still oddly beautiful, nonetheless.
Hit The North 