Faze 3 Magazine reviews Monkeypuzzle
Faze 3, November 1998
Reviews: Eric Walls
Baby Ray has filled this little platter with some cool, quirky catchy pop-rock gems that manage to set themselves apart from the herd with creative hooks and their willingness to play with and expand the basic pop-rock forms. Cool vocal harmonies and hooks and some really nice and refreshingly different guitar riffs couple with wonderfully quirky, distinct songwriting style to create the force that is Baby Ray. Imagine the Police mixed with the Replacements and the Smithereens and you might begin to come close to imagining what they sound like but even that doesn't do this band justice as they indeed are a unique entity. They are just as apt at rockin' pop ditties as well as spacey, psychedelic charmers. At times they even approach Prog tendencies with some of their arrangements and twists. Prog-pop anyone? In a genre overly diluted with cookie cutter, copycat bands and trite, cliched songs, Baby Ray dare to be different and expand the horizons of the music and create a sound distinclty their own.