The wonderfully twisted,self-possessed, wry, and leather jacket-armored shadowy humored queen of the downtown night,Shilpa Ray, continues to survive working the door at the Lower East Side / unique York City bar Pianos. And she’s turned that harsh reality into an album of cutting commentary.
On the forthcoming record Door Girl, or Shilpa Ray plays with throwback “girl group” sounds – apart from she’s got backing guy vocals and crisp production. Her songs are full of acerbic observations on desperate people,some quite personal - "Manhattanoid Creepazoids," "Revelations of a Stamp Monkey, or " and "Rockaway Blues"; the portraits are far from pretty,and definitely no longer glittering, with a blaze-of-lights-at-closing-time-feel delivered in her singular brassy croon and growl. Shilpa Ray joins us, or (sans harmonium),in the studio to play some of these latest songs.
Source: thetakeaway.org