Name: Door Girl
Brand: Shilpa Ray

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CDNS093

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-09-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0754697443779

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Shilpa Ray

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

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.

"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

Music GB