Ray, Shilpa – Portrait of a Lady - New LP

  This punk rock, etc. concept album was primed for a 4-sider double album, and it brings me joy that Shilpa had the wisdom to fit this into two sides.  Welcome the immigrants from India (and every other country), and let their children grow up with punk rock, and maybe we will have more powerful and beautiful albums like this one.  Obviously rising out of pain, this tells a classic American story, timely tales presented as a collection of songs, the set moving through many tempos and styles (and female singer influences) to fit the different parts and moods of the stories.  -- winchPortrait of a Lady by Shilpa Ray    "Nobody grows up wanting to be an artist’s artist. Appreciated by the sub sect of the sub sect is like being the beauty queen at the leper colony."  -- Shilpa Ray   "With her raging new album Portrait of a Lady, New York punk rock/art pop songwriter Shilpa Ray has created her most searing and personal album to date. Written in the wake of the #metoo movement and the weath