Rock It to the Moon
2001 studio album by Electrelane
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Rock It to the Moon is the debut album by the English group Electrelane, released in the UK in 2001 by Let's Rock!, and issued by Mr. Lady Records in the US in 2002. Too Pure, the record label Electrelane signed with for their follow up album, The Power Out (2004), reissued Rock It to the Moon in 2005.
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| Released | 30 April 2001 | |||
| Recorded | September – October 2000 | |||
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| Length | 73:55 | |||
| Label | Let's Rock! / Mr. Lady | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Drowned in Sound | (8/10)[2] |
| NME | (8/10)[3] |
| PopMatters | (favorable)[4] |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.4/10)[5] |
The album was mostly instrumental. Verity Susman explained, "Way way back, when we first started, we always had a lot of singing. But it never worked that well. When we did instrumental it was always more interesting. More completely we felt like we were doing something good, while the songs with the singing ended up quite bog-standard, boring, not very interesting."[6] NME rated the album an 8 out of 10, saying Rock It to the Moon was "just the way a debut album should be... utterly focused [and] stripped of all extraneous flab."[7]
Track listing
- "The Invisible Dog" (Debbie Ball, Rachel Dalley, Emma Gaze, Verity Susman) – 4:20
- "Long Dark" (Ball, Mia Clarke, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 9:20
- "Gabriel" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 4:25
- "Film Music" (Ball, Gaze, Tracy Houdek, Rupert Noble, Susman) – 3:57
- "Blue Straggler" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 6:49
- "Many Peaks" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 4:01
- "Le Song" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 3:25
- "Spartakiade" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 1:41
- "U.O.R." (Ball, Gaze, Noble, Susman) – 8:42
- "The Boat" (Dalley) – 4:25
- "Mother" (Clarke, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 22:24
Personnel
- Verity Susman – clarinet, guitar, piano, glockenspiel, saxophone, vocals, handclapping, Farfisa organ, string arrangements
- Emma Gaze – percussion, drums, tambourine, vocals, handclapping, radio
- Rachel Dalley – bass, conga, vocals
- Mia Clarke – guitar
- Katie Spafford – cello
- Roland Susman – trumpet
- Marianne Vaughan – violin
- Polly Benians – handclapping
- Christelle Breedt – handclapping
- Electrelane – producer, mixing
- Jake Rousham – engineer
- Matthew Ryan – producer, engineer, mixing
- Sarah Feltham Chesshire - Viola
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United Kingdom | 30 April 2001 | Let's Rock! | CD | LETS 003 |
| United States | 22 January 2002 | Mr. Lady Records | CD | 22 |
| Worldwide reissue | 31 October 2005 | Too Pure, Beggars Banquet | CD | PUREL 169CD |