On June 11th, Azure Ray will release Remedy via Maria Taylor's Flower Moon Records (pre-order). The album marks the 50th release on Taylor's label, Flower Moon Records and Azure Ray's first ...
Azure Ray is changing. Featuring the vocal and instrumental talents of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, the duo began in Birmingham, Ala., traveled to Athens, Ga., and found a home in Omaha, Neb. For a ...
“Hey, look how low I’ve sunk/Don’t ask me to rise,” so pled Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink of Azure Ray twenty years ago on the song “Rise,” one of the many whispery weepers found on their superb, ...
Azure Ray has passed through several life cycles as a band. In the early 2000s, indie-folk duo Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink were twentysomething rookies who relocated from Athens, Georgia -- deep ...
It can take years, if not decades, for the saddest songs to reveal themselves as such. The symphonies of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Type O Negative’s thundering doom, the cracked and withering voice ...
Dream pop duo Azure Ray returned from a hiatus in 2018 with a new EP, Waves, and now they’ve announced their first LP in a decade. Remedy is due out June 11 via Maria Taylor’s Flower Moon Records, and ...
In 2001, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor quietly released a brilliant indie-folk album that would go on to influence some of the biggest names in music history. Since 2001, Fink and Taylor have stayed ...
Those of us lucky enough to write about music aren't always blessed with the right words to do so. Part of what draws us--or at least me--to music is its ability to transcend the spoken and written ...
Azure Ray turned everything around to reverse sweep their way to the championship win at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023. At that time, GG tore through AR in what seemed to be child's play for the dominant ...
It’s been 20 years since Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink introduced the world to their project Azure Ray. In the time since, their near-whispered vocal stylings and dreamy ambient sounds have crept into ...
Azure Ray seemed perched on a precipice while singing "The Drinks We Drank Last Night" on the Troubadour stage. In the song, the band conjures up the sound of that up-all-night moment when you're not ...