Lydia Lunch - Crimes Against Nature (CD)

All Music Guide

Originally released by Triple X in 1993 and reissued by Atavistic in 1993, the threedisc set Crimes Against Nature is a strictly spokenword affair, with pieces ranging from the 90second "Terminal Distraction" to the nearly 50minute ramble "Conspiracy of Women." The style of the pieces should be familiar to anyone who's followed Lunch's spokenword career: unfocused, rambling harangues that regularly score some cogent political and sociological points but are so onenote in their air of complacent selfrighteousness and notasshockingasthought transgressiveness, and so lacking in the antic humor of a Jello Biafra or Henry Rollins that Lunch ends up preaching solely to the choir. Only the most diehard fans of Lunch's spokenword releases will make it all the way through in a couple of sittings.

- Stewart Mason, All Music Guide