{"id":20283,"date":"2022-02-07T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?page_id=20283"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:47:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:47:49","slug":"1992-cmj-review-clint-ruin-lydia-lunch-dont-fear-the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/press\/interviews-and-reviews\/1992-cmj-review-clint-ruin-lydia-lunch-dont-fear-the-reaper\/","title":{"rendered":"1992 CMJ Review Clint Ruin Lydia Lunch: Don&#8217;t Fear The Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLINT RUIN\/LYDIA LUNCH: Don&#8217;t Fear The Reaper<\/p>\n<p>The lead cut isn&#8217;t as much as a de(con)struction of the Blue Oyster Cult classic as we expected, the lead guitar lines remaining safely intact, but Lydia&#8217;s trademarked snarl and what sounds like a New York City street block tumbling to its death in the instrumental break leave this rendition standing on its own Doc Martens. The other cover-the Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Why Don&#8217;t We Do It In The Road&#8221;-is carried to its limits in far more typical Ruin\/Lunch fashion, a repetitive, moaning groove sustained by way-flanged-out guitar, samples of a car crash and a meddling of Lydia&#8217;s sultry crooning and a bluesy backing vocal. &#8220;Clinch&#8221; and &#8220;Serpentine,&#8221; the original half of the EP, respectively showcase both the upfront evil assualt and the more subtle, suggestion of evil these two are capable of.<\/p>\n<p>CMJ New Music Report, Issue# 266 (10 Jan 1992), author unknown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLINT RUIN\/LYDIA LUNCH: Don&#8217;t Fear The Reaper The lead cut isn&#8217;t as much as a de(con)struction of the Blue Oyster Cult classic as we expected, the lead guitar lines remaining safely intact, but Lydia&#8217;s trademarked snarl and what sounds like a New York City street block tumbling to its death in the instrumental break leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20285,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20283\/revisions\/20285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}