RAYON BEACH are one of the most head-blasting, endorphin-rushing musical anomalies we’ve stumbled across in a while (...) . Located terrestrially in Austin, TX but borne of outer limits only imagined by acid casualties trying to find where Syd Barrett lives, Rayon Beach take us on an incredible ride through surreal sound-scapes and off-center arrangements, and pull it all together under a tight black umbrella, soaked in afterbirth and glowing like weird moon rocks. With aural slices so scrappy and inspirational, they effortlessly conjoin shards of obscure noise, not unlike the uncategorizable brilliance of The Deviants, Swell Maps, and The Soft Boys, in that inescapable running of the primal Pink Floyd nuance through the chainsaw-style state of mind (...) Far from the actual boring hippie-oriented so called-psych style many "garage" bands have adopted recently, these three new songs on the 7" we're proud to introduce here are just brilliant gems fueled with energy and imagination and this second record can let you imagine how important this band will be in a close future. |
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RAYON BEACH - HOZAC 12" - BUY |
RAYON BEACH - PLASTIC SPOON 7" - BUY |
RAYON BEACH - DEATH RIDES A HORSE |
SUMMER 2011 |
| RAVIN SINGS THE BLUES HoZac has a nose for the best bits of any garage wasteland and while deftly nabbing Woven Bones from the Austin landscape, they've picked up Rayon Beach as well. Good thing too, because their brand of fuzz pummeling stomp mixed with space dripped psych is far too good to let fester alone the sun. The band's debut 12" has just appeared on the venerable label and it floats from ether scraping trysts to foot stomped garage, with a deft flexibility. A rough introduction that's more than promising to say the least. Pick this one up quick as usual, no gold ltd. edition but 1st press of black is only 550. THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE Rayon Beach is a band that is frigging exciting to see. We cut folks in half with our ultra trained pet sounds, then build and breast feed them back together with a chartreuse magnetic force as if they were our own sea monkey orphans. Our Ojo de Dios areolas are totally sweet. We sing like we know what ghosts know. People are dipped into pure gold at our shows on our acoustic party boat. We will sculpt your aura like Edward Swordfingers into woodland creatures and things of beauty. There is a very tight and developed sense of physical and metaphysical progression within our harmonic novella blasts. Our beats are riveting and full of reckless abandon, reminding 4 out of 5 target audiences of "Badlands" released in 1973 starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. We are known to never, ever, ever act like someone's uncle begrudgingly making an appearance at a birthday party. Rayon Beach hands out marzipan sound waves in Polish ghettos to all the kids playing cane ball. VICTIM OF TIME Austin Texas' swirling and lustrous psych-punk unravellers, Rayon Beach were captured recently at their hometown's best live venue, Beerland for a mind-warping live experience as evidenced by these incredibly fried photos. With their debut 12" EP on HoZac already well into its second pressing and heads turning in their direction from all over the place, it seemed only natural for these seething soldiers of sonic slime to take on their wanderlust and embark on their first official tour this summer. Tearing off the heads of anyone ballsy enough to witness their in-person degradation of aural atrocity, Rayon Beach have writhed up through the carcasses of their lysergically-preserved forefathers to emerge as another classic Texas psychedelic monstrosity, poised to cauterize and decapitate with the utmost finesse. So if your bag consists of the same animalistic attraction and morbid curiosity as these black-bleeding brothers of the deranged mind set, do anything you can to catch them outside of their home state of Texas throughout the South and East Coast and back up through the Midwest next month. And if you just can't resist the head-rattling state of affairs that comes from the side project, Cryptic Scissor (featuring Andy from Woven Bones and Tom from Rayon Beach), don't sleep on subscribing to the HoZac Hookup Klub before it's too late, featuring the debut 7" by Cryptic Scissor, a Kraut-fried space trip straight into your inner skull, coming soon. ALTERED ZONES Rayon Beach followed up a great HoZac EP with an even more ferocious, psych-addled garage single from the ever-consistent Plastic Spoon Records. It takes a certain amount of panache to really meld psych and garage without sounding overly hippy, and Rayon Beach seem to balance the buzzsaw crunch and rumble with just the right amount of space scraping effects. If the first 12" felt like a primer, then these three songs sounds like the band really starting to hit their stride. Can't wait for what the band brings next. (via Raven Sings the Blues) AUSTIN SOUNDS If the past few years of Austin music have been characterized by a resurgence of psych and garage sounds, then Rayon Beach sits at the perfect conjunction of the two. The trio’s debut EP, The Memory Teeth, was released on vinyl earlier this year by HoZac Records, and offered up a six song shot of trippy, gritty rock that nods to the 13th Floor Elevators while plowing into the fold of contemporary bands like Woven Bones. At times melodically delirious, and at others forcefully blunt in their garage trauma, Rayon Beach taps something primal and pulsing. You can catch them live this Thursday, November 4, for the Austinist’s free Fun Fun Fun Fest pre-party at the Mohawk with their latest installment of Local Music is Sexy, also featuring a heady lineup of TV Torso, Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves, Watch Out For Rockets, Markov, and Hundred Visions on the outside stage with Rayon Beach, while Bill Baird, Weird Weeds, Sleep Good, Botany, Mutual Benefit, Dana Falconberry, and Amasa Ghana hold down the inside. WEEKLY TAPE DECK Three chords is all you really need to make a great pop song, Ramones taught us this, Rayon Beach uses a few more strings but the idea remains: keep it concrete, lucid and honest and people will respond. Thus I have responded to this song and the band comes out victorious with their first LP on HoZac that is named for the song in study, Memory Teeth which you may pre-order here. A bustling track with almost Morrison-in-a-cave-on-peyote vocals that contrast well to the stark guitar and bass, its a wonder that Rayon Beach is Texas band and Ive not heard of them until now. |
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