A selection of nice, nasty, and incomprehensible press and radio comments about Chuck Berry vs IBM

Q Magazine Review(****)
(A) bizarrely wonderful debut ...Bad Dreams sounds like Dion busking in a sewer, then mutates into something Blue Cheer might have some up with ... Venus Ray flaunt a winning disregard for studio gloss and songwriting conventions, allowing passion to dictate their muse resulting in songs with a visceral impact sometimes bordering on the scary. (click here for full text)

The Independent Interview
It doesn't sound like anything else .. imagine rock'n'roll colliding with dub in a run-down studio and you may just get a glimpse of Venus Ray's craft. Then again, you still wouldn't be ready.(click here for full text)

Guitar Magazine Interview
A classic rock'n'roll lickfest nestling happily up to spacey analogue synths.(click here for interview)

Drowned in Sound Webzine Review
bruised and atmospheric beauty ... fizzing keyboard flavours merging with classic blues guitar progressions to offer a previously unenvisioned future for rock'n'roll... This is something that can only be described as being cool as fuck.(click here for full text)

Uncut Review(*** 1/2)
The title says it (almost) all. This London avant-pop trio have put Fifties rebel-rock and bad monster movies through Seventies glam and dub techno-mangles to throw sharp new shapes.
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Bucketful of Brains Magazine Review
packed with tunes of disarming hummability ... the same electro-punk fuel that once propelled Alan Vega into similar territory ... zero gravity rock'n'roll for the the 21st century. The Right Stuff! (click here for full text)

London Evening Standard Preview
Venus Ray are different... juggling guitar pop nous with short-circuited electronica to produce a fine mix of ruptured grooves and leftfield melodicism.

NME Live Review
Songs about girls, cars and, most importantly, dreaming about flying to the moon in a rocket bolted together in the garage with Chuck Berry playing on the eight-track.(click here for full text) (click here for another NME live review)

Audiostreet Review
A strange, off-kilter but extremely satisfying record, which is a delight to listen to ... a disorientating mix of styles ... sound like very little other music around. (click here for full text)

Daily Mirror Review
A multi-coloured whizz through five musical decades ... if interplanetary pop is your thing, this is a ray to bask in.(click here for full text)

Flux magazine Review
It is the simplicity that is so disarming .. this is a record that experiments without ignoring the need to hook you up to the melody first.

Classic Rock Magazine Review
Goes out of its way to be provocative ... unlikely to leave you moved one way or the other.

www.barflyclub.com Review
We need more bands trying to capture the sound of twenty tone-deaf mice in miniature wraparound sunglasses playing ‘White Light/White Heat’ on a toaster, so Venus Ray have to be a good thing.

Insanity FM
Superb album. If Badly Drawn Boy was truly warped and cool he would sound like this.

Solar 1287
A talented group, but not really radio friendly.

C Lymbouris, Livewire
Begging for radio play.

Lush FM
A bit slow and wierd in places but otherwise pretty good.

G Lee, Radio London
It's fucking dreadful!... I'd rather listen to my wife all day.

C Lewis, Radio Maldwyn
Very good.

D Franklin, Nevis Radio
A fine catchy tune with a steady beat and clear vocals. Seems to have a clear approach with a tight arrangement.

D Caccamo, London Calling
Fabulous, I'm quite amazed.

A Sewell, Radio Freedom
At first I thought what a load of crap ... I actually quite like it now.

Amazon.co.uk customer review
One of the most unusual records of the year. After 3 or 4 listens the record suddenly reaches out and grabs you by the throat. What at first seemed strange suddenly seems bizarrely logical. I now love this record. A mix of Big Star-like melodies and strange dub-like production, with echoes of doo-wop, blues, punk and garage rock. Fantastic.


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