Name: You Can Get There From Here
Brand: Rays

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TIM141CD

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Download code: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-11-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

630125982907

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Rays

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Trouble in Mind

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.

You Can Get There From Here

Music US