Matrikamantra

Matrikamantra
Studio album and Live album by Lydia Lunch
Released October 31, 1997
Recorded Harbinger House, NY
March 1, 1997 at Palace Acropolis, Praha, Czech Republic
Genre Post-punk
Length 96:31
Label Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
Producer Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch chronology

Shotgun Wedding
(1991)		 Matrikamantra
(1997)		 Widowspeak
(1998)


Matrikamantra is the fourth album by the singer/songwriter Lydia Lunch, released on October 31, 1997 through Crippled Dick Hot Wax!. The first disc is a studio album that contains new material, while the second disc contains a live performance recorded at Palace Acropolis in 1997.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Lydia Lunch, all music composed by Joseph Budenholzer.

Disc one (Harbinger House)
No. Title Length
1. "Need to Feed"   3:51
2. "Inverted Dream"   2:33
3. "Disease of the Night"   5:45
4. "Psychic Anthropology"   3:46
5. "Cesspool Called History"   5:01
6. "Dread"   4:25
7. "Escape"   2:50
8. "Itch"   2:40
9. "Solo Mystico"   2:46
10. "Lethe"   3:26
11. "In Spite of God"   2:56
12. "Archives of Blood"   2:55
13. "Outpatients"   5:22
Disc two (Live in Praque)
No. Title Length
1. "Intro/World of Whispers"   8:30
2. "Cesspool Called History"   5:18
3. "Gravediggers of the Future"   5:45
4. "Need to Feed"   6:36
5. "Perfumed Corpses"   6:29
6. "Disease of the Night"   4:33
7. "In Spite of God/Vortex"   11:12
8. "Hermones"   3:50
9. "Dread"   5:44
10. "Outpatients/Exit"   9:23

Personnel

Harbinger House
Live in Praque

References