New Haven and NYC art-rock band Fay Rey is the last band confirmed for the Nov. 14 Elm City PopFest.
From Fay Rey’s
Eclectic in its genre, FayRey is what happens when you combine a love of classic, gritty NY punk rock, with a love for contemporary classical music. Guitars thrash and buzz blending with front woman Lillian Fuchs vocal growls and taunts. Bass notes surge and recede around carefully crafted primitive drum grooves, all evoking the glitter and grit of punk rock — until the trademark FayRey moment happens of something unexpected. Keyboards and violins slowly weave a melody that rises over the top of the pulsing grind of guitar and bass. Drums drop into a deconstructed shimmer of cymbals and out of it all emerges a haunting vocal line.
Fay Rey site Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths and Gogol Bordello as influences, among others.
