
Piles of Perfect Guitars! Hailing from Greensboro, North Carolina, The Raymond Brake was the sound of boys growing up in the shadow of Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo, and yet remarkably finding their own unique voice. Profoundly in love with the chaos and rush from tube amps pushing heat beyond broadcasts, The Raymond Brake's debut Piles of Dirty Winter introduced an enthusiastic band whose beauty was in the innocence and impetuousness of romantic youth. Why start a band really, if one is not willing to turn volume knobs skyward and right. [...]

The Raymond Brake was formed around 1994 in Greensboro, NC. Most, if not all of them, not even of legal drinking age yet when they got together. Being not too far away from the Chapel Hill scene at the time, it's not surprising that The Raymond Brake sported some resemblances of some of the areas big hitters such as Archers of Loaf and Polvo . However, for those that have never listened to the band, don't expect any sort of carbon copy as The Raymond Brake were definitely great in their own way [...]