Chameleon
trauma ray
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Release Date: 25/10/2024
Since first bonding over Slowdive at a Texas karaoke bar six years ago, musicians Uriel Avila and Jonathan Perez have grown trauma ray into Fort Worth's foremost flag bearer of crushing shoegaze. A five-piece rounded out by bassist Darren Baun, drummer Nicholas Bobotas, and guitarist Coleman Pruitt, the band's debut album captures their evolving sound at an apex of majestic devastation. A fusion of downer hooks, gauzy melancholia, and bulldozer riffs, the album heaves and crashes across 50 minutes of stacked amplifier alchemy. Lyrically the songs trace similarly lofty and brooding terrain; Avila says 'The theme is death. And a chameleon, like death, can shape-shift in and out our lives in different forms'.
1: Ember
2: Torn
3: Chameleon
4: Bardo
5: Bishop
6: Elegy
7: Drift
8: Breath
9: Spectre
10: Flare
11: Iso
12: U.S.D.D.O.S.