Dry Cleaning Ray is a mini-album released by British Art rock band No-Man. It was intended to be a companion release to Wild Opera album, compiling reinterpretations and original songs stemming from the Wild Opera sessions.

Dry Cleaning Ray
EP by
ReleasedMay 1997
GenreDance, Ambient
Length41:59
Label3rd Stone Ltd.
ProducerTim Bowness, Steven Wilson
No-Man chronology
Flowermix
(1995)
Dry Cleaning Ray
(1997)
Radio Sessions: 1992-96
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

In keeping with other No-Man releases, several tracks offer other uses of Steven Wilson's previously released music; in this case, "Jack the Sax" reuses the guitar progression from "Wake as Gun" (on the Porcupine Tree release Insignificance), while "Sweetside Silver Night" uses a chord progression later reused for ".3" from Porcupine Tree's In Absentia.

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Bowness / Wilson, except Track 8, Serge Gainsbourg (translation: Mick Harvey)

No.TitleLength
1."Dry Cleaning Ray" (remix edit)2.56
2."Sweetside Silver Night"4.02
3."Jack the Sax"4.17
4."Diet Mothers"4.56
5."Urban Disco"3.17
6."Punished for Being Born" (Muslimgauze mix of Housewives Hooked on Heroin)2.18
7."Kightlinger"2.44
8."Evelyn (Song of Slurs)"4.04
9."Sicknote"8.57

Musicians edit

References edit

  1. ^ Raggett, Ned. Dry Cleaning Ray – No-Man at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

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