Rock It to the Moon explained

Rock It to the Moon
Type:	Album
Artist:	Electrelane
Cover:	Electrelane-RockItToTheMoon.jpg
Recorded:	September – October 2000
Genre:	Rock, post-rock
Length:	73:55
Label:	Let's Rock! / Mr. Lady
Next Title:	The Power Out
Next Year:	2004

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."^[1] 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."^[2]

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

• 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
• Sarah Feltham Chesshire - Viola

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom		Let's Rock!	CD	LETS 003
United States		Mr. Lady Records	CD	22
Worldwide reissue		Too Pure, Beggars Banquet	CD	PUREL 169CD

Notes and References

1. Web site: Farouky . Jumana . Electrelane . . 2003 . 2008-02-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044944/http://www.undertheradarmag.com/webonly/electrelane/electrelane_bonus.html . 2007-09-28.
2. Web site: Pattison . Louis . Electrelane: Rock it to the Moon . . 2001-04-18 . 2008-02-07 .