Oakland band Rays return with their second album, You Can Get There From Here, their first release since their eponymous Trouble In Mind debut in 2016. You Can Get There From Here represents a turning point for the band, angling their scrappy, post-punk fury into a more refined and melodic pop sensibility, drawing inspiration from UK DIY pop and punk like Dolly Mixture, Cleaners From Venus and Television Personalities. Songs like Fallen Stars and The Garden temper their sonic crunch ever so slightly, relying more on the harmonic wallop of a solid hook than the sheer volume of guitars. This is urgent, chiming guitar pop that clangs with a sonorous melancholy and a ramshackle grace. Rays can still lay it down with the rest of 'em; tunes like Subway and Work of Art shuffle and stumble forward, skirting chaos in a flurry of strums, recalling antipodean groups like UV Race or Dick Diver who cull inspiration from idiosyncratic UK greats like Mark E. Smith or Robyn Hitchcock.

LP - Black Vinyl.

LP+ - Limited Red Vinyl.

Rays

You Can Get There From Here

Trouble in Mind
Album artwork for You Can Get There From Here by Rays
CD

$13.99

Released 11/09/2018Catalog Number

TIM141CD

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Rays

You Can Get There From Here

Trouble in Mind
Album artwork for You Can Get There From Here by Rays
CD

$13.99

Released 11/09/2018Catalog Number

TIM141CD

Learn more

Oakland band Rays return with their second album, You Can Get There From Here, their first release since their eponymous Trouble In Mind debut in 2016. You Can Get There From Here represents a turning point for the band, angling their scrappy, post-punk fury into a more refined and melodic pop sensibility, drawing inspiration from UK DIY pop and punk like Dolly Mixture, Cleaners From Venus and Television Personalities. Songs like Fallen Stars and The Garden temper their sonic crunch ever so slightly, relying more on the harmonic wallop of a solid hook than the sheer volume of guitars. This is urgent, chiming guitar pop that clangs with a sonorous melancholy and a ramshackle grace. Rays can still lay it down with the rest of 'em; tunes like Subway and Work of Art shuffle and stumble forward, skirting chaos in a flurry of strums, recalling antipodean groups like UV Race or Dick Diver who cull inspiration from idiosyncratic UK greats like Mark E. Smith or Robyn Hitchcock.

LP - Black Vinyl.

LP+ - Limited Red Vinyl.