Rays

When they formed Oakland, California's Rays mixed the scrappy DIY sound of 70s punk and early 80s post-punk with the impassioned, unpolished melancholy of early Flying Nun bands to come up with their art-damaged songs. Their self-titled debut was recorded as a quintet, but soon afterwards they added keyboards and shifted from lo-fi punk to more measured DIY sounds reminiscent of mid-80s UK bands like Cleaners from Venus and the Pastels, as evidenced on their second release, 2018's You Can Get There From Here. The band was formed in 2015 by two members of the Bay Area punk ban...