Lunch, Lydia Retrovirus

***No Wave iconoclast and Big Sexy Noise-queen LYDIA LUNCH, in conspiracy with Herculean guitarist WEASEL WALTER (THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS), fret-destroying bassist TIM DAHL (CHILD ABUSE) and legendary skinsbasher BOB BERT (SONIC YOUTH, PUSSY GALORE) unleash Urge To Kill—the follow up to 2013’s face-melting live recording by this deadly combo called RETROVIRUS. Recorded live in studio by engineer COLIN MARSTON (Gorguts, Behold The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia) on one afternoon in November 2014, Urge To Kill stomps new life into classics from Lydia’s immense and darkly evocative catalog, with no material repeated from the live debut. Included are re-invigorated re-imaginings of songs like “Snakepit Breakdown” and “Lock Your Door” from 13.13. (1981), “Fields of Fire” and “Three Kings” from Honeymoon in Red (1987), the Rowland S. Howard slow-scorcher “Still Burning,” “Some Boys” from In Limbo (1984), “Tied and Twist” from Queen of Siam (1980) as well as a gloriously manic reworking of Suicide’s seminal shriek, “Frankie Teardrop.” (STREET DATE - 5/26/2015)