Gentlewoman, ruby man

"Gentlewoman, Ruby Man's power comes from its choice of songs - you could make a fantastic, eclectic mixtape out of the originals - and the way it warps them ... There's a bullish confidence about the way they tackle stuff as well-worn as the Velvet Underground's Sunday Morning or Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. And something hugely impressive about the way they corral the wildly catholic source material - everything from Ocean and Blake to the George Harrison-assisted recordings made by the London Radha Krishna Temple and the curious prog-funk found on troubled French singer-songwriter Nino Ferrer's 1974 collaboration with the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Nino and Radiah - into a consistent album".

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"Part of the fun of this covers album from the Spacebomb Records crew is hearing how Matthew E. White and Flo Morrissey rethink how male and female voices can relate and react to each other".

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"Stilistisk tager White og Morrisey arven op fra dynamiske mand-kvinde-duoer som Nancy Sinatra og (...) Lee Hazlewood samt Marvin Gaye og Tammi Tyrell. »Gentlewoman, Ruby Man« lyder retro, uden at den kammer over i pyntesyg og tuttenuttet kitsch, som det ofte sker i M. Wards og Zoey Deschanels' She & Him, som det ellers også er oplagt at drage visse paralleller til her. Men Whites og Morriseys stil er langt mere varmblodig, livagtig og naturligt cool. Og det, selv om man vist godt kan tillade sig, at kalde albummet for et lille hyggeligt og uforpligtende mellemspil. Den slags skal der også være plads til. Især hvis det er godt som her".

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"Matthew E. White og Flo Morrissey puster nyt liv i gamle og knap så gamle numre med stilsikkert cool fortolkninger".

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