Dry Cleaning Ray

Dry Cleaning Ray
EP by No-Man
Released	May 1997
Genre	Art pop, neo-psychedelia, trip hop, space rock, dream pop
Length	41:59
Label	3rd Stone Ltd.
Producer	Tim Bowness, Steven Wilson
No-Man chronology
Flowermix (1995) Dry Cleaning Ray (1997) Radio Sessions: 1992-96 (1998)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Dry Cleaning Ray is an EP released by British art rock band No-Man. It was intended to be a companion release to Wild Opera album, compiling reinterpretations and original songs stemming from the Wild Opera sessions.

In keeping with other No-Man releases, several tracks offer other uses of Steven Wilson's previously released music; in this case, "Jack the Sax" reuses the guitar progression from "Wake as Gun" (on the Porcupine Tree release Insignificance ), while "Sweetside Silver Night" uses a chord progression later reused for ".3" from Porcupine Tree's In Absentia .

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bowness / Wilson, except Track 8, Serge Gainsbourg (translation: Mick Harvey).

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dry Cleaning Ray" (remix edit)	2.56
2.	"Sweetside Silver Night"	4.02
3.	"Jack the Sax"	4.17
4.	"Diet Mothers"	4.56
5.	"Urban Disco"	3.17
6.	"Punished for Being Born" (Muslimgauze mix of Housewives Hooked on Heroin)	2.18
7.	"Kightlinger"	2.44
8.	"Evelyn (Song of Slurs)"	4.04
9.	"Sicknote"	8.57

Musicians

• Tim Bowness – vocals, words
• Steven Wilson – instruments
• Natalie Box – violins (4)
• Bryn Jones (Muslimgauze) – remix / reconstruction (6)

References

1. Raggett, Ned. Dry Cleaning Ray – No-Man at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

External links

• No-Man's Official Website
• No-Man's Fan Site