Rock It to the Moon

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Rock It to the Moon
Electrelane-RockItToTheMoon.jpg
Studio album by
Released30 April 2001 (2001-04-30)
RecordedSeptember – October 2000
Genre Rock, post-rock
Length73:55
Label Let's Rock! / Mr. Lady
Electrelane chronology
Rock It to the Moon
(2001)
The Power Out
(2004)
Singles from Rock It to the Moon
  1. "Film Music"
    Released: 2000
  2. "Gabriel"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Blue Straggler"
    Released: 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [2]
NME (8/10) [3]
PopMatters (favorable) [4]
Pitchfork Media (6.4/10) [5]

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.

Contents

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

  1. "The Invisible Dog" (Debbie Ball, Rachel Dalley, Emma Gaze, Verity Susman) – 4:20
  2. "Long Dark" (Ball, Mia Clarke, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 9:20
  3. "Gabriel" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 4:25
  4. "Film Music" (Ball, Gaze, Tracy Houdek, Rupert Noble, Susman) – 3:57
  5. "Blue Straggler" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 6:49
  6. "Many Peaks" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 4:01
  7. "Le Song" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 3:25
  8. "Spartakiade" (Ball, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 1:41
  9. "U.O.R." (Ball, Gaze, Noble, Susman) – 8:42
  10. "The Boat" (Dalley) – 4:25
  11. "Mother" (Clarke, Dalley, Gaze, Susman) – 22:24

Personnel

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United Kingdom 30 April 2001Let's Rock! CD LETS 003
United States 22 January 2002 Mr. Lady Records CD22
Worldwide reissue31 October 2005 Too Pure, Beggars Banquet CDPUREL 169CD

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Drowned in Sound review [ permanent dead link ]
  3. NME review
  4. PopMatters review
  5. Pitchfork Media review
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