On Gemma Ray's latest record, 'Lights Out Zoltar!,' she leads with a track called '100mph (in 2nd Gear),' a song that's steeped in a southwestern sound with Ray's sweeping voice sounding quite panic stricken. For the accompanying video, she takes a page from the David Lynch storybook, creating a surreal yet loose narrative of a lounge singer who's in some sort of wild dream state. She winds up with her getting into a car with a mysterious stranger, who just happens to have a rubber band.

"I wanted to bring out the visual poetry of how the song sounds," Ray tells Spinner of the video shoot. "Juxtaposition is the way I write -- bringing two extremes together, it lends a few possible ways to look at the song."

Ray says that she wrote the song in a hotel room in Cannes, at a time she says "when I wasn't moving very fast in my life and everything around me was. I wasn't physically too well and the song's about everything spinning around when you're just in one place, generally that feeling of trying to push forward and you can't do it."

'Lights Out Zoltar' is out now on Bronzerat Recordings. Check out the video for '100mph (in 2nd Gear)' below.