Lydia Lunch & Cypress Grove
Under The Covers

THE REVIEW

I have always listened to album covers with thinly veiled suspicion: The approach is not easy, in the sense that the trivial copying of songs as well as their deconstruction are equally dangerous and in the end everything risks becoming mediocre.
Lydia Lunch, the witch of New York who traversed the No Wave at the turn of the 70s and 80s, as a singer, actress, poetess, who has worked and collaborated with many bands and musicians, is not new to these operations: In the past, she has tackled the songs of Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Pere Ubu, Suicide, Eagles, among others.
After the previous albums –A Fistful Of Desert Blues- and -Twin Horses-, she continues the artistic musical partnership with Cypress Grove, an English guitarist, who for her is much more than a serial collaborator: He has worked with Nick Cave, Thurston Moore, Mark Lanegan, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, writing beautiful pages of music.
Under The Covers- is an anti-commercial, acidic, dark album, full of reverb, without hesitation: Lydia and Cypress take a handful of pieces, those they love or those they hate (it's hard to tell), and rewrite them in a sinister way in a kind of alternative country blues that is, in some ways, disconcerting.
Lydia's voice is disturbing, emotional; Cypress's guitar is beautiful, melancholic, dark, seductive.
Blaze of Glory- by Bon Jovi, -Midnight Rider- by the Allman Brothers, -The Spy- by Jim Morrison, -Ode to Billie Joe- by Bobbie Gentry, -Breakdown- by Tom Petty, -I Want You by Elvis Costello, -Do It Again- by Steely Dan, -Low- by Cracker, Lydia even covers herself in -Won’t Leave You Alone- written with Gallon Drunk ……
It is a very homogeneous and extremely artistic work, in line with the character of Lydia Lunch: It is recorded at home with pro tools and only one microphone... yes, only one microphone for everything, even Danilo Menna's drums and Mick Cozens's harmonica.
Considering certain proposals, it is an album that can verge on a masterpiece.
The colored vinyl in a limited edition of 300 copies is intended as an added value.