Official music video for “Let Me Be Your Light” from the band, The Black Ryder is a collaboration between Australian duo Aimée Nash & Scott Von Ryper. Etheral drone, ceremonial percussion, and dead-eyed harmonies carry on together until they build up to something sublime. There’s never really a climax because the whole thing feels like one overwhelming wave of gorgeous noise. “The Door Behind the Door” , is beautifully slow burning, its grinding guitars and heavy layers of dark, feted romance akin to Spiritualized and the Jesus and Mary Chain. The Black Ryder have perfectly made the most magical, hypnotic music. They sound like the greatest band that Creation never released in their golden period and their blissful tripped out indie perfection is quite magical. Their music is spiked with feedback the way a murder cocktail is spiked with arsenic, but it’s the dreamy vocals of singer Aimee Nash that somehow turns the band into something more than a trippy daydream of chords. For times in need of mellowness – like Mondays, definitely – we highly recommend turning up your computer speakers and streaming their stuff online. Just don’t forget to breathe.
Their debut album ‘Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride’ was written, engineered + produced by Nash + Von Ryper with special guests appearing on various tracks: Ricky Maymi (BJM), Peter Hayes + Leah Shapiro (BRMC), Graham Bonnar (Swervedriver), and local Australian artists Luke O’Farrell (The Laurels) + Jules Ferrari (Los Sundowners).
New album – The Door Behind the Door – is out February 24th 2015
To date, the band have toured / played with Primal Scream, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Cult, The Black Angels, The Raveonettes, The Charlatans, Spectrum (Pete Kember / Spacemen 3), Broken Social Scene, Tamaryn
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