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Rating: You might not emerge alive from this album.
"Everything" is a 1996 collection that brings together pieces from the repertoire of this band active from '77 to '79 in the No Wave concentration camp in New York City, led by Lydia Lunch (lyrics, vocals, and guitar) accompanied by James Chance on sax and only on some tracks (including the beautiful "My Eyes").
Lunch is one of the most interesting and controversial female figures in all of rock music, a rag doll thrown headfirst in free fall into the world, without shields or parachutes, raw and bare at the mercy of the most shocking events (especially drugs and sexual abuse), a spokesperson of squalor and excess, a press from the dark bottom that swallows, grinds, and shapes sex, anguish, and depravity.
The music of Teenage Jesus is an abyss of madness, a dark and deep chasm that divides a world without light. We listeners are on that chasm; the guitar raises stalagmites at the bottom, the drums are a murderer with a double-edged knife approaching from behind... Lunch is the solitary voice on the other side screaming for us to jump.
These are essential, primitive, and violent lashes that come out of her mind, razor cuts that slice through the brain, are homicidal assaults of a girl wanting to ravage our corpses in a desperate act of necrophagia.
Lydia also has so much love; you can't be so distressfully aggressive without it.
Lydia seeks a bit of love, she crashes into the naked bodies of her desires in search of deep lacerations, a sadistic orphan girl in a calcified world.
Cries girl calls, calls loudly... no one is hearing you.
Eraserhead!
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