RAY

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GREAT REVIEWS UP HERE!
"Death In Fiction is the kind of album that will return your faith in music" The Daily Star
"Quite frankly, awesome" netrhythms
"Sweepingly majestic and savagely beautiful, a serious contender for best rock album of 2008. This cd ought to establish British rock quartet Ray as frontrunners for this year’s Mercury Prize" Lucid Culture
"The quality of songwriting and the finesse of their playing marks them out as timeless. Ray deserve to be in the charts, they deserve to be loved by millions" hard-wired
"It's a stunner...Not retro; modern and now!" The Big Takeover (US)
"You cannot fail to succumb to ray's charms" ireallylovemusic.co.uk
"It’s great stuff. If you like your music psychedelic and brooding this is the band for you" subba-cultcha
"A triumphant melange of echoing, edgy indie and careening guitar melody" Room Thirteen
"A lo-fi Editors ... pulled off to dazzling effect" ClickMusic
"Classically put together" The Beat Surrender
LIVE REVIEWS of recent show up HERE!
"A particularly majestic shade of limelight ought to beckon" Gigwise
"This is indie as it was and should be" Nightshift, Oxford
Another FREE download and LP track clips up at raytheband.com !
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ABOUT RAY
Since Ray's conception in London by brothers Nev and Mark Bradford, there’s been four critically acclaimed studio albums, 15 members come and go and a fair few tantrums on the way.
First spotted by Geoff Travis at Rough Trade, the band have since enjoyed being bashed like a pinball into various blind recesses of the independent music industry. The results have been the LPs First Light (Rough Trade), Deep Blue Happy (Pito), Daylight in the Darkroom (Pito) and Death in Fiction – out 5th May 2008 (Pito).
Those Ritalin-soaked days are now but memories for the troubled youth. Ray’s 2008 release – Death In Fiction – represents a new era of stability, with Sheffield’s Chris Lowe firmly ensconced on the drum throne, and the permanent addition of Northern Ireland’s Martin Tisdall on bass.
Death in Fiction is an album that lays claim once and for all to the sonic territory that the band have always inhabited – it’s a toughened up set of ten songs that flows dynamically from peak to peak, whilst still preserving the charm and beauty of Ray’s earlier work.
The four piece are now a lean mean gigging machine and pride themselves on playing wherever they are asked to play.
“Artistically monumental and offering huge anthemic fun with more than enough intelligence to offset your guilt” unpeeled.co.uk
“Young masters” Mojo
“A more melodic ‘The National’, with insane potential … I think Ray could forge a classic” The Big Takeover
“A slice of top draw, sky-scraping post-punk” Roomthirteen.com
“Guitar notes hang in the air. Words are weighted then dispersed in the ether … but acutely present undercurrents of hostility, give the songs a serrated edge” NME
RAY single GREAT STRANGE DREAM also out now!
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Single reviews currently up here
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