Chicago’s Cel Ray specialize in a frantic, jackhammering form of post-punk, which they play at hardcore speeds. Cel Ray released their first two EPs Cellular Raymond and Piss Park in 2023, and they’ll follow those record with their full-length debut Cel Rayzer
Modern post-punk’s yappiest frontmen leverage comedy like it’s a pillar of the genre: sardonic vocals as an auditory plot device, parody as critique, roasts of their fellow man as feminist credentials. But when Cel Ray frontwoman Maddie Daviss resorts to comedy, it seems to come from an entirely natural place. Like fellow Chicago-reared women whose wit pours forth from diminutive frames, Daviss is loud and loose in a literal sense, with limbs that swing around onstage…

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