Name: Last Year's Savage
Brand: Shilpa Ray

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Release date

2015-05-19

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LPNS64

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703610876057

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703610876040

Artist

Shilpa Ray

Label EU

Northern Spy

Genre EU

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

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 is, through no fault of her own, one of our unsung great artists. Having made her bones with the gothic Sturm und Drang of Beat The Devil and moving forward to the blues erosion of '...and The Happy Hookers' Shilpa Ray has been, armed only with an incomparable voice and harmonium haunted by the ghosts of dead lovers, perpetually crying in the wind, hoisting both middle fingers in the general direction of god. It's not a life a wise man would choose. Last Year's Savage Shilpa Ray has taken the pain and dark funk of earlier sounds and made explicit the sublimity that was always there just below the surface. The obsessions with sex, death, bodily functions, and betrayal (not necessarily in that order) remain but Shilpa has expanded the palate to convey the resignation, the simmering discontent of an artist disenfranchised and held down. Shilpa Ray has been an 'artist's artist.' Just about every musician in New York City, who doesn't hate her, loves her. Nick Cave sings her praises to all with the ears to listen (he brought her along a European tour as an opener and as a backup singer in the States). LP - With Download.

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