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General Info

  • Genre: Blues / Psychedelic

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    Profile Views: 122281

    Last Login: 10/23/2011

    Member Since 11/27/2005

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    Record Label desire/ everyone we know

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The Rayographs have carved out their own distinctive sound that taps into a dark shimmering psychedelia: blue like petrol, kaleidoscopic with flecks of colour throughout. The songs have an odd timeless quality that yearn for absent cinematic visuals. Swooping, atmospheric vocals, stream of consciousness vignettes encased in 60s garage hooks. .... November 2008 saw the release of their sold-out debut; a limited-edition hand-printed 7" single that was made Single of The Week by Organ, Normans Records and Piccadilly Records, with excellent reviews from Artrocker and The Stool Pigeon who described it as "a simmering blues tattoo enunciated like a hex and sharing not a little in common with Nick Cave's 'Tupelo.'" .... They released their second highly acclaimed limited edition 7" "Francis" in July 2009, which was once again made Indie Record of the Week by Piccadilly Records, appearing as a featured release on US Itunes and editors playlists including Rockfeedback, Stereogum and Rolling Stone. The record saw frequent comparisons to the Pixies and early PJ Harvey, cementing their reputation as one of London's most promising bands, merging incisive observational narratives with pummelling garage riffs. .... In between they travelled to Paris and other faraway lands, playing a host of mesmeric live shows, joint headlining the new band stage at Offset Festival, contributing to several independent film scores and selling records from magician's tables.

  • Members

    Amy-drums Jess-bass, vocals Astrud-guitar, vocals .. .. .... UK PRESS .. - Chris Stone: stone@stoneimmaculate.com INTERNATIONAL PRESS .. - Ian Pither: info@everyoneweknow.co.uk .. .... BOOKINGS .. - The Rayographs: rayographs@gmail.com/ emma@itb.co.uk

  • Influences

    Patti Smith, Pocahaunted, Sonic Youth, The Carrie Nations, Swans, ESG, Delia Derbyshire, Francesca Woodman, Explode Into Colours, David Lynch, The Organ, The Velvet Underground, Valerie and her Week Of Wonders, Michael Danna, Moon Duo, Danny Elfman, Angelo Badalamenti, Loop, Pere Ubu,The Breeders, Effie Briest, William Blake, Thee Headcoatees, Nick Nicely, The Stooges, Mogwai, Julian Cope, Raymond Carver, Electrelane, Nick Cave, Mz Sojourn, Diamanda Galas, Voice of The Seven Woods, The Laughing Windows, Ipso Facto, Love, Bauhaus, Liars, The Fall, Oxes, The Monks, Black Sabbath, Jefferson Airplane, PJ Harvey, Leadbelly, Make-Up, Jacques Brel.

  • Sounds Like

    "They really are creating something that threatens to be special…Sharp, atmospheric, alive... stark words, imagination, real blues.... One of those stand out bands that doesn't often come along" - ORGAN ___________ "Grimy, brash and colourful creations that rewrite the rock rulebook. 12/13" - ROOM 13____________ "Invoking the restless blues spirit of proto-riot grrrl heroines in the mould of Patti Smith as well as the dreamy tremblings of The Breeders, (The Rayographs) provide demure elegance in a sea of grubby punks, with pummelling rhythms strewn with forlorn, waiflike voices and surging progressive chords" - NME ________________ "They are not verse-chorus-verse immediate pop songs that everyone will instantly take to - they are immeasurably deeper and more precious than that" - TASTY FANZINE ______________ "'Hidden Doors' is a simmering blues tattoo enunciated like a hex and sharing not a little in common with Nick Cave's 'Tupelo'" - THE STOOL PIGEON ________________ "The spiritual offspring of Patti Smith and Polly Jean Harvey" - ROCKFEEDBACK ________________ "Francis is magnificent- a tense, pulsing incarnation of The Breeders, with spectral harmonies flitting between sweet dreams and torrid nightmares" - AU MAGAZINE ______________ "The three short songs on the Francis EP established a sound and identity that others haven't achieved in a string of albums" - FATEA RECORDS ____________ "Hidden Doors' prowls along with a dark beating heart, with all three girls in the band performing their socks off as if guided by ghosts" - ARTROCKER

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