Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs

TheRicky Eat Acid is Sam Ray, a Maryland-based musician who has his hand in a few other projects and was booked to open a late-February New York City show by R&B aesthetes Rhye; wonderfully (and tellingly), a recent mix Ray made for The Fader consists mostly of scruffy, heart-on-sleeve indie guitar pop from bands like Go Sailor, Joanna Gruesome, and Rocketship. Though it takes this album until the eighth of 12 songs to reach its dying-real pinnacle—the LP title is a slight misnomer—how it gets there is a patient journey across nuanced, digital-meets-organic soundscapes, fraught with gnawing heartache and wistful reminiscence.

1.
There is only you in the light & nothing else 00:44
2.
Driving alone past roadwork at night 02:35
3.
Inside my house; some place I keep dreaming about 02:06
4.
Big man's last trip outside 02:27
5.
In rural virginia; watching glowing lights crawl from the dark corners of the room 07:10
6.
Inside your house; it will swallow us too 02:55
7.
It will draw me over to it like it always does 03:26
8.
In my dreams we're almost touching 05:28
9.
God puts us all in the swimming pool 03:34
10.
Outside your house; the lights went out & there was nothing 06:59
11.
I can hear the heart breaking as one 05:05
12.
Starting over 01:53