Island Fire

cd comes in glorious deluxe digipack. essex-born, berlin-based gemma ray releases her third album. ray's bright and sultry voice anchors an effortlessly diverse offering, cloaked in gothic overtones. with current and former bad seeds thomas wydler and mick harvey adding lush orchestral treatments, songs such as 'make it happen' echo lee hazlewood's brooding desert psychedelia, while 'runaway' moves effortlessly from an ennio morricone soundtrack to sweet '60s girl group pop.