Rock It to the Moon

Rock It to the Moon
Studio album by
Electrelane
Released30 April 2001 (2001-04-30)
RecordedSeptember – October 2000
GenreRock, post-rock
Length73:55
LabelLet'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[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.

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

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 30 April 2001 (2001-04-30) Let's Rock! CD LETS 003
United States 22 January 2002 (2002-01-22) Mr. Lady Records CD 22
Worldwide reissue 31 October 2005 (2005-10-31) Too Pure, Beggars Banquet CD PUREL 169CD

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Drowned in Sound review[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ NME review
  4. ^ PopMatters review
  5. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  6. ^ Farouky, Jumana (2003). "Electrelane". Under the Radar. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
  7. ^ Pattison, Louis (18 April 2001). "Electrelane: Rock it to the Moon". NME. Retrieved 7 February 2008.