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• Artist: Amy Ray
• Album: Prom
• Label: Deamon
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-12-04

While I should admit to not being a fan of Indigo Girls, or any folk music stuck in the precious 60’s mode, Amy Ray’s solo records have always been a pleasant surprise. First of all they rock, and her lyrics are more pointed and raw than in her work for the famed duo. Prom rocks with three chord punk authority, and her writing of high school angst turns the usual cliches of prom, hazing and awkwardness upside down. This is sonic celebration of difference and rebellion in the best senses of the words. “Rural Faggot” is a monster tune, and in a braver world, would be played at proms instead of tunes to emphasize dreams that even seventeen year olds know are bullshit. “Let it ring” and “Put it Out for Good” are anthems that need to be on radio, where the kids who need to hear them are turned to mushy consumers by vapid pop.High School was only the best time of your life if you gave up at eighteen. Sorry. It is Ray’s making of her sexuality a universal rallying point for all who did not fit into the molds that high school demanded that makes this a winner in her large and small observations.

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