When you listen to a record by a band, (or artist), called Sister Ray, it's not unusual to expect to hear something that sounds a bit like The Velvet Underground. That's not an unusual assumption to make.
Sister Ray, from Edmonton, Canada, is essentially the project of Ella Coyes are first and foremost, not remotely like The Velvet Underground, which is frankly a relief, much as I love that debut.
Instead debut album Communion sounds like the kind of rites of passage soundtrack. The kind of thing that ends with coming to the end of the record deciding you need to leave the small town you grew up in. I don't think Edmonton is that small a town but you get the impression that it felt like it, listening to this.
Communion is never a joyous album. It'sa narrative of intense experience in the same way as early Big Thief records are. Not as good as that, but definitely worth a listen.
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