{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = 13.13 | type = studio | artist = [[Lydia Lunch]] | cover = Lydia Lunch - 13.13.jpeg | alt = | released = June 1982 | recorded = {{flatlist| * July 1981 at Perspective Sound, Sun Valley, California * August 1981 at Preferred Sound, [[Woodland Hills, California]], United States }} | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Post-punk]] | length = 39:58 | label = [[Ruby Records|Ruby]] <small>(original US release)</small><br>[[Situation Two]] <small>(original UK release)</small> | producer = {{flatlist| * 13.13 * Lydia Lunch }} | chronology = Lydia Lunch | prev_title = [[Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is the Ecstacy|The Agony Is the Ecstacy]] | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = [[In Limbo (EP)|In Limbo]] | next_year = 1984 }}

'''''13.13''''' is the second album by American artist [[Lydia Lunch]], released in June 1982 by record label [[Ruby Records|Ruby]].

== Content ==

''[[Trouser Press]]'' writes that the album "[revives] the grind-and-caterwaul of [[Teenage Jesus and the Jerks|Teenage Jesus]] as filtered through ''[[Metal Box]]''-era [[Public Image Ltd|PiL]], all deviant guitar and rolling rhythms".<ref name="Trouser Press">{{cite web |url=http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=lydia_lunch |title=TrouserPress.com :: Lydia Lunch |last1=Payes |first1=Robert |last2=Sheridan |first2=David |last3=Grant |first3=Steven |last4=Robbins |first4=Ira |website=[[Trouser Press|TrouserPress.com]] |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}</ref> UK magazine ''[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]]'' wrote that "sonically it comes over like a more droning, dissolute Stateside cousin of [[Siouxsie and the Banshees|Siouxsie & the Banshees]]' ''[[Juju (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)|Juju]]''".<ref name="Fact">{{cite web |url=http://www.factmag.com/2011/01/27/lydia-lunchs-1313-reissued/ |title=Lydia Lunch's ''13.13'' Reissued – Fact Music: Music News, New Music. |date=January 27, 2011 |website=[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]] |accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> The musicians who played on and co-wrote the album had been members of first wave Los Angeles [[punk rock|punk]] band [[the Weirdos]].

== Reception == {{Music ratings |rev1 = [[AllMusic]] |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/13-13-mw0000267071 |title=''13 13'' – Lydia Lunch <nowiki>| Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |</nowiki> AllMusic |website=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> | rev2 = ''[[Trouser Press]]'' | rev2score = mixed<ref name="Trouser Press"/> | rev3 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]'' | rev3score = 5/10<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Lydia Lunch|first=Joy|last=Press|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor2-first=Craig|editor2-last=Marks|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=232–234}}</ref> }}

''13.13'' has divided critics. ''[[Trouser Press]]'' wrote that "Like her previous stuff, it manages to be simultaneously fascinating and annoying."<ref name="Trouser Press"/> In its retrospective review, ''[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]]'' magazine qualified it as a "masterpiece".<ref name="Fact"/>

== Track listing == {{Track listing | headline = Side A | all_writing = 13.13 (Dix Denney, [[Lydia Lunch]], [[Cliff Martinez]] and Gregg Williams), except as noted | title1 = Stares to Nowhere | length1 = 4:15 | title2 = 3x3 | length2 = 6:05 | title3 = This Side of Nowhere | writer3 = [[Lydia Lunch]] | length3 = 4:15 | title4 = Snakepit Breakdown | writer4 = Lydia Lunch | length4 = 4:07 | length8 = | length10 = | title10 = | length9 = | title9 = | title5 = | title8 = | length7 = | title7 = | length6 = | title6 = | length5 = | total_length = }} {{Track listing | headline = Side B | title1 = Dance of the Dead Children | writer1 = Lydia Lunch | length1 = 2:49 | title2 = Suicide Ocean | length2 = 5:56 | title3 = Lock Your Door | length3 = 5:27 | title4 = Afraid of Your Company | length4 = 7:04 }}

== Personnel == ;13.13 *Dix Denney&nbsp;– guitar *[[Lydia Lunch]]&nbsp;– vocals, piano, production *[[Cliff Martinez]]&nbsp;– drums, percussion *Greg Williams&nbsp;– bass guitar ;Production and additional personnel *13.13&nbsp;– production *David Arnoff&nbsp;– photography *[[Bob Blank]]&nbsp;– [[Audio engineering|engineering]] *Steven McDonald&nbsp;– engineering *James Partie&nbsp;– photography *Jeff Price&nbsp;– design *[[Thom Wilson]]&nbsp;– engineering

== Charts == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! scope="col" | Chart (1982) ! scope="col" | Peak<br />position |- | [[UK Indie Chart]] | style="text-align:center;"|19<ref>{{cite book|first=Barry |last=Lazell |url=http://cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/l.htm |title=Indie Hits 1980–1989 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |date=1997 |accessdate=September 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105083758/http://cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/l.htm |archivedate=January 5, 2010}}</ref> |}

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{Discogs master |master=50402 |name=13.13 |type=album}} *[https://www.lydia-lunch.net Lydia Lunch official website]

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