The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton is the soundtrack to a film (The Right Side of My Brain)
starring Jim (Foetus) Thirlwell and Henry Rollins. Lucy Hamilton herself is actually
Lydia's collaborator on the record, which consists of eerie instrumentals orchestrated
with piano, honking bass clarinet (both played by Hamilton) and guitars that sound like
they're being played with ice picks and hedge clippers. Something rather different for
Lunch, and less like background music than most soundtracks.
The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton, the first six tracks, is the soundtrack to one of R. Kern's art-porn fetish films co-starring the titular subject, who also plays piano and Captain Beefheart-style bass clarinet throughout. Lunch's first strictly instrumental work, these six tracks still bear much of her trademark abrasiveness even without her aggressive, caterwauling vocal style, and they're some of her finest work.
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