#trauma ray

[xoul-eater]

Fleshwater - We’re Not Here To Be Loved

[sklira]

WMD | trauma ray

We sink into the sea Reminding you and me That I regret Everything

[guerrilla-operator]

TRAUMA RAY AT THE WALRUS. JACKSONVILLE, 9/25/23.

[ambientgaze]

trauma ray @ hotel vegas

austin, tx - 3/17/24

[hate5sixofficial]

trauma ray 2023-09-20 Johnny Brenda's Philadelphia, PA

[iamdangerace]

Trauma Ray, Starve from the [trauma ray] e.p. (2018).

[haveyouheardshoegaze]

Pictured: Transmissions, released in 2022

[shoegazekid]

@trauma_ray #shoegaze

[imathers]

Top 5 EPs: Trauma Ray — Transmissions

As a noted shoegaze enthusiast, I tend to check out any big articles on it that I come across, but I was pretty unimpressed with this one. Not because of any of the bands mentioned, or even because the author and I would draw the genre lines a little differently (which I think is manifestly unimportant, tbh); just a case of 1. differing taste (and him treating ‘novelty’ as the primary end in itself, and therefore a lack of novelty being a fatal flaw) 2. him being shitty and/or snide about some bands where our tastes differ 3. that fairly standard music writing flaw where he makes a number of objective statements that I, personally, can falsify (and a bunch more where I really, really suspect someone else can).

But! Like I said, none of that reflects on the bands featured. Many of them are currently in the “for further investigation” pile, and several I already loved (like Greet Death from earlier today), but Trauma Ray both had a great enough band name that I immediately looked them up despite them only getting a passing, passive-aggressive mention, and their newest EP seized me so immediately that even though the article came out in late December I played Transmissions enough for it to make my list.

Part of this is just how much of a motherfucker the opening “Liftoff” is, a great sprawling beast of a track, but the whole thing is very consistent and very, very good. Not, I happily admit, terribly revolutionary; but I deeply enjoy that, for example, “Träumarei” sounds like I something I would have hit repeat on in my Discman in 1996, thanks. The vast majority of us aren’t exactly oversaturated with this kind of thing; a bit more of it isn’t exactly a problem.

[guerrilla-operator]

Trauma Ray // Halley

[treblealien]

trauma ray from north texas in kansas city on may 15th, 2024

[beatsforbrothels]

Trauma Ray - Relay

[iamdangerace]