Since Ray's conception in London there’s been four critically acclaimed studio albums, 15 members come and go and a fair few tantrums on the way. First spotted by Geoff Travis at Rough Trade, the band have since enjoyed being bashed like a pinball into various blind recesses of the independent music industry. The results have been the LPs First Light (Rough Trade), Deep Blue Happy (Pito), Daylight in the Darkroom (Pito) and new album Death in Fiction – released May 2008 (Pito).Those Ritalin-soaked days are now but memories for the troubled youth. Ray’s 2008 release – Death In Fiction – represents a new era of stability. Death in Fiction is an album that lays claim once and for all to the sonic territory that the band have always inhabited – it’s a toughened up set of ten songs that flows dynamically from peak to peak, whilst still preserving the charm and beauty of Ray’s earlier work. The four piece are now a lean mean gigging machine and pride themselves on playing wherever they are asked to play.