Name: Last Year's Savage
Brand: Shilpa Ray

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-NS-064

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Colour

Black

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-05-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

703610876057

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Total Cap

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

Artist

Shilpa Ray

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Northern Spy Records

<p>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.</p>

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).

Last Year's Savage

Music US