WRAY Share New Video for “Bad Heart”
WRAY Share Gnarly New Video for “Bad Heart”
Self-Titled Debut Album Released
January 26 in the UK
“…furiously hallucinogenic rock ‘n’ roll.” – Clash Music
“A wash of distortion, a motorik beat, an impassive and nearly drowned-out vocal: These are the essential building blocks for Wray, a three-piece band pursuing its own extrapolation of shoegaze, surf-punk and lo-fi garage-rock.” – New York Times
“…WRAY are woozier and more majestic, with gently-gliding vocal melodies and a steadily-chugging rhythm that owes more to krautrock than it does punk or garage.” – Wondering Sound
“[folding] dream pop into shoegaze and noise rock, separating tides of aggressive cymbal clashing from calming, lo-fi vocals. It’s a unique mélange of genres, melding beach rock breeziness with the type of driving, slowly evolving aesthetic that marked bands like My Bloody Valentine.” – Noisey
Birmingham, Alabama’s WRAY – David Brown, Blake Wimberly and David Swatzell – have shared their brand new video for “Bad Heart”. Taken from the band’s self-titled debut, (released in the UK on 26th January 2015 via Communicating Vessels) and directed by Justin Gaar, this, as Clash Music put it in their video premiere “is a music scorched by the sun… rhythmic gyrations soaring out towards the horizon.”
Watch and Bad Heart
Recording their debut in their hometown at Ol Elgante Studio alongside mastermind engineer, Daniel Farris (Man Or Astro-man?, St. Vincent, Polyphonic Spree, Verbena), Wray have managed to capture the atmospheric beauty of their collective that comes with every live show they play.
This is not music for a passive audience. This three piece demands your attention. Wray isn’t afraid to revel in repetition, churning confident, seamless grooves firmly in the tradition of NEU!, Faust, or Can. Their shimmering, headphone-ready tones owe much to Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and even The Cure, but without the crippling self-absorption of chillwave, dreampop, or whatever all the sad bastards are listening to this week.
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