LISTEN TO IT #84: ARE YOU GEMMA RAY?
Aug. 21st, 2013 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogUntil this year, I had no idea who Gemma Ray was. Now I do, and I’m a better man for it.
That’s probably exaggeration. But I have a copy of her new album, Down Baby Down, and I’m digging it.
Ray, if you don’t know, is a multi-instrumentalist who takes cues from Link Wray, John Barry, Sinatra/Hazlewood and Ennio Morricone, and distills them into atmospheric songs with a mid-60s feel and lots of vibrato guitar. Think Anna Calvi without the drama and you get the idea.
Down Baby Down is more instrumental than Ray’s previous albums, with the same set of lyrics resurfacing every so often to build a kind of theme.
It’s the kind of thing you can almost imagine David Lynch sticking onto a movie soundtrack (if he still made movies) if it was a little more noir.
Anyway, just listen.
Going down,
This is dF
That’s probably exaggeration. But I have a copy of her new album, Down Baby Down, and I’m digging it.
Ray, if you don’t know, is a multi-instrumentalist who takes cues from Link Wray, John Barry, Sinatra/Hazlewood and Ennio Morricone, and distills them into atmospheric songs with a mid-60s feel and lots of vibrato guitar. Think Anna Calvi without the drama and you get the idea.
Down Baby Down is more instrumental than Ray’s previous albums, with the same set of lyrics resurfacing every so often to build a kind of theme.
It’s the kind of thing you can almost imagine David Lynch sticking onto a movie soundtrack (if he still made movies) if it was a little more noir.
Anyway, just listen.
Going down,
This is dF
