Name: Door Girl
Brand: Shilpa Ray

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Redeye

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Extended format: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Release date

2017-09-22

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LPNS93

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754697443786

CDNS93

754697443779

Artist

Shilpa Ray

Label EU

Northern Spy

Genre EU

Classic

Northern Spy is a Brooklyn-based independent record label formed by former staff of the legendary ESP-Disk’ imprint. As an artist-run label, Northern Spy shines the light on musicians who are tenacious, forward-thinking and making devil-be-damned fine music, while finding substance in the disparate worlds of free improvisation and popular music.

Shilpa Ray is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York with a blues punk sound. Led by singer-songwriter Shilpa Ray, their music has been compared to Blondie, The Cramps and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Ray's singing style has been likened to Patti Smith, Nick Cave and Ella Fitzgerald. Notable for combining an Indian harmonium with a big-voiced blues-rock howler vocal approach, the band signed a record contract with Northern Spy Records and has toured internationally.

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"Shilpa Ray Stars as Door Girl" beckons from the cover of Door Girl in pink neon - reminiscent of nothing less than the pink lipstick that spells out New York Dolls on the cover of their similarly explosive record. Her song titles are gems that glitter with scorn - "Shilpa Ray's Got a Heart Full of Dirt," "You're Fucking No One," and "Morning Terrors Nights of Dread," to name a few - and underscore how extortionately rare good song titles truly are. Her voice - singular in modern popular music because of its radiant imperfection - takes neither prisoners nor guff as it offers up continuous caustic commentary on the human condition. Hers are observations gleaned from endless nights watching people in their natural habitat. These are not pretty pictures, shot through as they are with violence in the obvious and menace in the failures. Alternately dreamlike and lifelike, Door Girl carves out its portraits of nightlife with reverberation and feedback, unveiling an expansive level of production quality through which even the perfectly-recorded snare drum is as present and as crisp as the bad breath of the drunk falling asleep at your elbow.

Door Girl

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