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Honesty

by Forest Ray

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“Honesty” is the first video single from Forest Ray’s fourth studio album, Black Pine. The video takes place in a smokey, and dimly lit restaurant and bar, after a lonely bar regular stumbles in for a drink. The bar is filled with unenthusiastic patrons either disinterested with the event, or too consumed with themselves to pay attention to the bar band on the seemingly delicate night.

The mid-tempo drive takes you on a nonchalant stroll through the video that starts to unfurl into a more chaotic and distorted scene as the patrons grow progressively drunker and more raucous. The music fills out and seemingly takes the bar crowd into a progressive state of delirium.

Taking some jabs at satirical rock n’ roll tropes that play into the psychedelic folk aesthetic reminiscent of byrds’, we see some bottles start to crash and some fists start to fly, all surrounded by hazy steel guitar, reverb drenched vocals, and lush flute accents. The solo crescendos into an epic psychedelic folk freakout filled with harmonicas and bending guitars masked in a surreal wash of tape delays, something of a signature for the group. Honesty marks one of the more cohesive expressions of the groups eclectic influences, showcasing a lush instrumentation that highlights the early era of psychedelic rock while simultaneously channeling their innate drive and garage rock/punk roots. Forest Ray’s Honesty, while being a product of turmoil and joy, manages to simultaneously uproots these feelings in the same smokey room, bottle in hand.

Most of the actors are members of the Seattle music community affiliated with the Forest Ray Records label. It was filmed on location at Wong’s Kitchen and Bar in Seattle, WA on Super 8 film, complementing Forest Ray’s entirely analog music production process. Featuring members of Control Test, Smoker Dad, VllY, Myrrum and Wrestler, also based in the Seattle area.

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Well no one likes to be honest
They all, say it’s the truth
So when you come to realize
Trust in no one but you

Why is it so hard to see
We waste in relation to time
Why is it so hard to see
I’m going out of my mind

I’m going back this time (x4)

Instrumental Break #1

Memories seem to fade, but I won’t
No I won’t go away
One thing I can pro-mise you is
Nothing’s gonna change

Why is it so hard to see
We waste in relation to time
Why is it so hard to see
I’m going out of my mind

I’m going back this time (x4)

Instrumental Break #2

You know the stars align
Well maybe in the ne-xt life
We’ll get it riiight, Goin’ on
We’re getting hung up on
Things that can’t get along
But they go byyyyyy

credits

released May 20, 2020
Written by Peter Marin Sumic
Recorded by Forest Ray
engineer Erik Takuichi Wallace
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering
Recorded and mixed fully analog to a Studer A 280

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Forest Ray is a psychedelic rock project whose dedication to analog recording has harbored a darker, older and more intimate sound. Forest Ray's music combines guitar driven psychedelic rock with tinges of raw synth-laced post-punk, Tropicalia flute and uninhibited performances that embody the garage punk aesthetic that fueled the group’s creation ... more

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