Rock It to the Moon

Infobox Album
Name = Rock It to the Moon
Type = Album
Artist = Electrelane


Released = Start date|2001|4|30
Recorded = September 2000 - October 2000
Genre = Rock Post-rock
Length = 73:55
Label = Let's Rock!
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wxfyxqu0ld0e link]
*Drowned in Sound (8/10) [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/2570 link]
*NME (8/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/electrelane/4868 link]
*Piero Scaruffi (7.5/10) [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol7/electrel.html#roc link]
*PopMatters (favorable) [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/e/electrelane-rock.shtml link]
*Pitchfork (6.4/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17405-rock-it-to-the-moon link]
Last album =
This album = Rock It to the Moon (2001)
Next album = "The Power Out" (2004)
Misc = Singles
Name = Rock It to the Moon
Type = Album
Single 1 = Film Music
Single 1 date = 2000
Single 2 = Gabriel
Single 2 date = 2000
Single 3 = Blue Straggler
Single 3 date = 2001

"Rock It to the Moon" is the debut album by English rock group Electrelane. It was released on compact disc 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.

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." [cite web | last = Farouky | first = Jumana | title = Electrelane | publisher = Under the Radar | year = 2003 | url = http://www.undertheradarmag.com/webonly/electrelane/electrelane_bonus.html | accessdate = 2008-02-06 ] 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." [cite web | last = Pattison | first = Louis | title = Electrelane: Rock it to the Moon | publisher = NME | date = 2001-04-18 | url = http://www.nme.com/reviews/electrelane/4868 | accessdate = 2008-02-07 ]

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

Release History

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