Conspiracy theorists, I’m here to enable the part of your brain that’s perpetually throbbing with paranoia: Brooklyn artist Shilpa Ray is secretly and very gradually trying to abolish all of the music in the world except for hers!
The theory isn’t obvious when you consider her professed love for bands like The Cramps, The Stooges, and The Velvet Underground, but on a more suspicious level, she’s also expressed a general liking for silence as a reaction to being bombarded with sounds (including music) on a daily basis. Combine that with Brave New World being an admitted inspiration for her newest album on Northern Spy, and you’re allowed to make the leap that, yes… digital music will be completely replaced with audio from previous Tom Brokaw newscasts some time in the year 2245 AD.
But at least we’ll have Shilpa’s vocals! And her harmonium! Those are two memorable carryovers from her recent Happy Hooker days, while Last Year’s Savage, out May 19, seems like a negligibly quieter force by comparison. I blame the continued candidness of her lyrics, personally.
Please, hear what Nick Cave hears in terms of talent:
Last Year’s Savage tracklisting:
01. Burning Bride
02. Pop Song for Euthanasia
03. On Broadway
04. Johnny Thunder’s Fantasy Space Camp
05. Oh My Northern Soul
06. Nocturnal Emissions
07. Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room
08. Sanitary iPad
09. Moksha
10. Pipe Dreams Ponzi Schemes
11. Hymn
• Shilpa Ray: http://www.shilparay.net
• Northern Spy: http://northernspyrecords.com
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