Name: Milk For Your Motors
Brand: Gemma Ray

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-BRO-038

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-08-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5051083082464

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Total Cap

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

LP-BRO-038

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5051083082471

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

Artist

Gemma Ray

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Bronze Rat

THE WHEEL SETS GEMMA RAY's stall out from the very start. It begins as pop noir with junkyard percussion and Ray playing shuddering guitar chords like Link Wray's Rumble until it suddenly breaks out into sunny vocal harmonies. There are elements of that early '60s rock'n'roll soundworld dotted throughout Milk For Your Motors, but Ray's arrangements are both unpredictable and inspired, and along with her vivid lyrics give us a series of remarkable musical tableaux. Waving At Mirrors is a brutal, but sweetly-told tale of a distracted driver making up in the mirror and ending up with her face "all over the pavement". Such grimness is balanced by the redemptive You Changed Me, with its soaring orchestral backing. But the most haunting song is the fuzz guitar- and drum machine-driven Motorbike. "He always said goodnight," laments Ray, except when he rode off into oblivion on this one fateful occasion. Suicide's Alan Vega relishes his role as the voice from beyond the grave.

Milk For Your Motors

Music US