Girl Ray, my new favourite band

Barely a handful of tracks, but love everything I've heard so far. If Stereolab were filtered through Brill building/Laura Nyro/70s art-pop rather than VU/Ye-Ye/Krautrock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDaL0isRQk8

this is lovely

they remind me of gorky's zygotic mynci

Like this a lot.

Wow excellent

i mean, it's nice piffle, but...

I wonder what makes this music in particular subject to that criticism.

Not challenging enough or some shite like that probably. A couple if their tunes came up in my Discover Weekly playlists. I dig them.

This is really nice and the vocals are pretty

I wonder what makes this music in particular subject to that criticism.

"Brill building/Laura Nyro/70s art-pop rather than VU/Ye-Ye/Krautrock"

Name's a feminist pun on a famous surrealist innit?

DO YOU SEE

band history here, plus several more tracks
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/06/new-band-of-the-week-girl-ray-no-142-lo-fi-pop

Why this is more of a "piffle" than 100 other things ilx takes seriously I don't really understand.

Xxp I thought it was a pun on the former Game Theory drummer tbh

Oh lol nm

I wonder what makes this music in particular subject to that criticism.

because it's watered-down motown/girl group stuff, and why listen to a tentative attempt at the Crystals?

and piffle is fun to say

It doesn't really sound like an attempt at Motown but w/e nyro is way closer of a comparison

There are '60s era melodic elements (and in the vocal harmonies) if you listen to all their songs. That doesn't give me, personally, any inclination to compare their music overall with big production '60s records. I guess if you do that, you would be inclined to characterize it as being watered down. I think their other guitar-based songs suggest some application of what I tend to think of as the Raincoats (or pick some other period band) template, though.

and piffle is fun to say

So is pffft.

ok but this is "He's So Fine" performed by three people with late-stage colds

Imagine those punk rockers thinking they could actually sing!

Yes do Gorky's

everyone is free to not listen to this

ehhh, superlatives generate responses. "my new favorite band" got me to listen to it, which i probably wouldn't otherwise have, but it also got other people to dismiss it as "piffle". overall i think in this case it was probably worth the superlative.

my fave is the b-side of "trouble", "where am i now". that song is truly transcendental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk8LUaL8dk

As far as post-Electralane harmonizing girl garage from London goes, I wish The Wharves got more attention. A bit like this, but less Brill more Fairport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUMcKDohaBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-c4kRPGmI4

I like "Where Am I Now" quite a bit.

"Piffle" was a joke, fwiw. Sneaky response to LJ in the "Posts You Had Second Thoughts About" thread. Not that it matters now...

ah sorry
i can't keep up with all LJ related jokes

Kind of love with dem ATM

IN

"Truly transcental" is a bit of hyperbole but the timbre of the vocals is : )

"I'll Make This Fun" is lovely

New song "Don't Go Back at Ten". Album "Earl Grey"is scheduled for August, 4th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4a__Xz7Mu8

the album is fantastic fyi

also how has no one compared them to the roches yet

now that you have I'll be listening asap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPC5-3ua1ag

The earl greys seem to be having fun here

I'm really enjoying this record, but can someone explain the Gorky's comparisons upthread and in a few reviews? I don't hear the similarity--like at all.

Every single vocal melody they have sounds like Euros Childs wrote it

I don't hear it, but they're certainly writing better songs than Mr. Childs has in the past couple decades.

coincidence. i was just listening to early grey this week

really nice

production reminds me a little of pains of being pure at heart's first album iirc

Assumed that the revive was for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFo_qaaJMls

new record coming in November, https://girlray.bandcamp.com/album/girl. liking the new song, label blurb says they've "gone pop". . .

Single (show me more) doesn’t sound like them (dat beat) but it’s nice anyway

the new single is nice and quite bouncy. more extrovert than usual.

the new album is great. so varied and flowing very well. it is less indie than usual and more electronic and almost dance-orientated in places. there are even some jazzy vibes with flutes and stuff like in let it go. and there is a rap song as well. probably my album of the year (after one and a half listens).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1syfgJ-4w

Oh excited to hear it!

New album's really enjoyable. Reminiscent of Saint Etienne circa 2000-2003 at times. From some of the publicity I thought they may have gone with an expensive techno production sheen but it's mostly got a great live feel.

St Etienne? Really? That is a band I never got into at all though I really tried. Girl Ray have the better voices, the catchier tunes and the greater variety. They are simply much more musical, do you say that in English?

I hear the Saint Etienne comparison - specifically, the poised restraint of Good Humour. But there's the same set of influences - 60s pop, electronica, the dreamier end of 80s indie - just, triangulated in a different way.

Naturally I adore this, the vocals are lovely and remind me of Tracey Thorn a lot. The production is great too, really spacious and warm.

Sometimes the singer reminds me of Nico. Newish LP is enjoyable

i got the t-shirt they wore on the last tour in berlin beginning of march just before corona broke out. awesome concert, down to earth and sympathetic people.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0018936257_10.jpg

the new album is really disappointing

indie rock band discovers disco...again