RAY

NEW RAY ALBUM DEATH IN FICTION is OUT NOW!

Death In Fiction is one of DJ Stevie Zoom from KEXP Seattle 90.3 FM's Top 10 albums of 2008

Album Available at all good record stores including HMV & amazon in UK – Entangled / Tower in US and amazon.de in Germany

Available to download at and all other major download servers.

FREE downloads and LP track clips up at raytheband.com!

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GREAT NEW ALBUM 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

"A particularly majestic shade of limelight ought to beckon" Gigwise

"This is indie as it was and should be" Nightshift, Oxford



ABOUT RAY



Since Ray's conception in London 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 now on Pito Records.

Those Ritalin-soaked days are now but memories for the troubled youth.

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

OTHER RAY ALBUMS ALSO AVAILABLE:

DAYLIGHT IN THE DARKROOM (Pito - Aug 2006)



Available at all good record stores plus:

hmv.co.uk, amazon.co.uk &

amazon.de

Available in US at tonevendor.com and Entangled Records

Album can also be downloaded at



HMV Digital, Napster, emusic, intomusic.co.uk



DEEP BLUE HAPPY (Pito - Nov 2005)



Avalaible at all good record stores plus: amazon.co.uk and amazon.com Available in US at Entangled Records

Available to download at HMV Digital, Napster and emusic



FIRST LIGHT (Rough Trade - Nov 2001)



Avalaible at: amazon.co.ukand Rough Trade