Girl Ray – Earl Grey
Girl Ray capture the uncertainty and intensity of adolescence on their debut album
North London three-piece Girl Ray deliver a debut that’s witty and wistful in equal measure. With a maturity far beyond their years, they capture the uncertainty and intensity of the adolescent years where everything feels possible but nothing lives up to expectations.
Typically enough for an album so rooted in adolescence, love and infatuation are recurring themes, with Stupid Things discussing the lengths we go to to feel intimate with someone and Cutting Shapes tackling the thorny subject of post break-up blues. Equally, Just Like That deals with the frustration deriving from a drawn-out but ultimately fruitless love affair and opens the album with an infectious Hammond organ riff.
The combination of delicate melodies and introspective lyrics seem too carefully crafted to be produced in such a short incubation period – just two weeks of recording. Earl Grey delivers eleven thoughtful, quirky tracks which deserve to be listened to again and again.
Listen to: Just Like That, Preacher, Earl Grey (Stuck in a Groove)