Chameleon

Description

Trauma Ray is a slowcore/shoegaze band from Fort Worth, Texas. The band's debut album, Chameleon, captures the evolution of their sound at the height of majestic devastation. A fusion of downtuned hooks, hazy melancholy, and bulldozer riffs, the album ebbs and flows for 50 minutes of amplistack. One of Trauma Ray's greatest talents is its ability to make gloomy heaviness an effective melody, without production artifice or gimmicks. Chameleon is a masterpiece of craftsmanship, balance, melody, lyricism, and gravity, offering a fresh take on loud-quiet-loud architectures and the dizzying depths of explosive harmonics. From Slowdive to Nothing, through Hum and beyond, the band absorbs and develops its influences into a rare and dedicated alchemy. For fans of Downward, Slowdive, Duster, Deftones, Horsegirl, Smashing Pumpkins (Gish/Siamese Dream), Nothing, Hum, Kraus, my bloody valentine, Cold Gawd, Slow Crush, Glare, Cloakroom, Superheaven.