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Friday 5 January 2018

Some Torch Song Psychadelia?


No me neither - A description from Wiki describing the music of Gemma Ray. They also use the terms noir-pop, sideways blues and gothic folk. I clearly have to get out more.

Of her seven albums I only have the first one The Leader from 2008. I featured it before and it was interesting to see if the same songs jumped out at me this time. Yes and no is the answer.
Track 5 Rise of the Runts caught my attention as it did the last time along with Hard Shoulder. But I was also taken with On Your Own.

A post a day means I am probably going to be re-visiting old material more often and I'm not sure whether I will be able to maintain my enthusiasm and motivation but we'll see how it goes.

Gemma Ray - Hard Shoulder

Gemma Ray - On Your Own

8 comments:

  1. Must be 'acts with the word Ray in their name Friday' today. We've gone with Girl Ray today.
    KT

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  2. Good stuff. Saw her live last year and I was hardly impressed. And I know how hard it is to keep the blog alive daily.

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  3. " I'm not sure whether I will be able to maintain my enthusiasm and motivation but we'll see how it goes" Jo said the very same thing to me yesterday.........

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    1. George 1986 phoned they want their joke back....
      Swc..

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  4. Sideways Blues is a good genre description.

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  5. Didn't know anything about her until The Robster posted a great ICA on JC's site. Well worth getting to know.

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