13 Above the Night by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (CD,1999, Ryko...sealed

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Album Features
UPC: 014431046223
Artist: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Format: CD
Release Year: 1999
Record Label: Ryko Distribution
Genre: Industrial, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. The Velvet Edge
2. Delicate Terror
3. Badlife
4. Dirty Little Secrets
5. China de Sade
6. Dimentia 66
7. Final Blindness
8. Blue Buddha
9. Starmartyr
10. Electrical Soul Wish
11. 13 Above the Night
12. Disko Fleshpot
13. Savage Sexteen
14. Blue Buddha - (Master of the Ultraflesh Mix)
15. Electrical Soul Wish - (Miss Hate Mix)

Details
Playing Time: 72 min.
Contributing Artists: Lydia Lunch
Producer: Buzz McCoy
Distributor: Ryko Distribution
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Full performer name: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.Includes bonus remix tracks.My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: Buzz McCoy (vocals, keyboards); Groovie Mann (vocals); Trash K. (guitar); Levi Levi (bass); Otto (drums); Jacky Blaque, Secret DeZyre, Kitty Killdare (background vocals).Additional personnel: Shawn Christopher, Lydia Lunch (vocals); Luc Van Acker, Bruce Manning (guitar); Gro, Miss Stress Aviv Avon (samples).Recorded at Ground Control, Santa Monica, California from December 1992 to January 1993.Personnel: Lydia Lunch, Shawn Christopher (vocals); Luc Van Acker (guitar).The perfect soundtrack to a pill-crazed romp through L.A.'s dirtiest and lowest whorehouses, 13 Above the Night is a record as much about style as substance. But, then again, that's all that it really aspires to be. Reveling in dark sexuality, drug use, and the occult, it conjures up the spirit of the lost of America's cities remarkably. Celebrating the surface level as it does, it is difficult to listen to this record with anything close to a critical ear. It is a loud, unsubtle album that is nevertheless danceable and seductive. The production team of Buzz McCoy and Groovie Mann pair percolating synth grooves and techno rhythms with buzzing guitars and almost R&B-style female background singers. Heavily-processed lead vocals slither in and out of the tracks, emerging to spit venomous and cryptic lines such as "killed his taste in switchblades" (from "Delicate Terror"). Creepy vocal samples play a prominent role in My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult's music, in much the same way that they are used by White Zombie. The entire album holds together quite well, with each track having compelling moments. Fellow traveler Lydia Lunch shows up for the swinging "Dirty Little Secrets," which provides perhaps the greatest view into the Thrill Kill Kult world-view, with its seductive vocals that are less the come-on of a woman to her beloved than the desperate plea of a washed-up porn star turning tricks for heroin money. A depressing record, to be sure, but interesting on its own merits. It's not a bad place to visit, but you sure as hell wouldn't want to live there. ~ Daniel Gioffre