Love Your Abuser

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Love Your Abuser
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 30, 2007
Genre Post-rock
electronica
Length39:40
Label Mush
Lymbyc Systym chronology
Carved By Glaciers
(2005)
Love Your Abuser
(2007)
Love Your Abuser Remixed
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Drowned in Sound (7/10) [1]
Pop Matters (7/10) [2]
Rock Sound (8/10) [3]
XLR8R (7/10) [4]

Love Your Abuser is the debut studio album by American band Lymbyc Systym, released in 2007 on Mush Records. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."9 - Rest Easy/Age Kindly"2:23
2."10 - Love Your Abuser"5:19
3."1 - Astrology Days"4:40
4."2 - Idle Wires"3:44
5."3 - Fall Bicycle"3:29
6."4 - Birds"5:07
7."5 - A Day At the Beach"0:50
8."6 - Truth Skull"4:12
9."7 - Pittsburgh Left"4:05
10."8 - ...So We Can Sleep"5:51
Total length:39:40

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References

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  2. MacNeil, Jason (February 8, 2007). "Lymbyc Systym: Love Your Abuser". Pop Matters . Retrieved May 10, 2011.
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