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Album available in UK at all good stores plus Amazon / hmv / play & zavvi - and in US at Entangled Records and Tower
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REVIEWS of Death In Fiction up here
"Death In Fiction is the kind of album that will return your faith in music" The Daily Star
"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 (US)
"Quite frankly, awesome" Net Rhythms
"It's a stunner...Not retro; modern and now!" The Big Takeover (US)
"A triumphant melange of echoing, edgy indie and careening guitar melody"
Room Thirteen 10/13
"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 9/10
"Stately and elegantly persuasive indie" The Belfast Telegraph
"You cannot fail to succumb to Rays charms" ireallylovemusic.co.uk
"Between the mysticism of Jim Morrison and the dark hauteur of Andrew Eldtritch"
John Earls, Teletext
"It’s great stuff. If you like your music psychedelic and brooding this is the band for you"
Subba-Cultcha 4/5
"A lo-fi Editors ... pulled off to dazzling effect" ClickMusic
"Classically put together" The Beat Surrender
LIVE REVIEWS of RAY up here
"A particularly majestic shade of limelight ought to beckon" Gigwise
"This is indie as it was and should be" Nightshift, Oxford
The RAY Social, London show on 02/04/08 was one of the TIME OUT CRITICS' CHOICE GIGS OF THE WEEK, and also a recommended gig in METRO.
LP currently playlisted at KEXP SEATTLE, and featured on GIDEON COE'S BBC 6MUSIC show.
FREE DOWNLOAD of Five Times Cursed PLUS audio previews of other songs from the new album
Death In Fiction available EXCLUSIVELY from the MUSIC page
RAY SINGLE GREAT STRANGE DREAM OUT NOW.
The track is taken from the new album and features two other new non album tracks as B sides
– Wretchedest Man and The Red Veins In His Eyes Don't Lie
– click here for single reviews
We're very pleased to report that the single has been traveling well with it being playlisted on KEXP 90.3FM in Seattle!
John Richards from the station has also recommended our last album Daylight in the Darkroom in the March 2007 edition of Paste Magazine as one of his top 5 current releases! See press for feature.
The new single has also been played on Steve Wide's Far and Wide
show on 3RRR 102.7FM in Melbourne Australia.
The last Ray album Daylight in the Darkroom, along with the single Great Strange Dream, is given a great review by Jack Rabid in the new edition of US magazine The Big Takeover.
(Fall issue # 61)
“Like a more melodic ‘The National’, with insane potential ... I think Ray could maybe forge a classic”Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover
We're very pleased to be able to support HumanRights TV.com
Click here to find out more about the site and what they're up to, and here to watch a video they've produced which features the track Dead Eyed Angels from our 2006 LP Daylight in the Darkroom.