Cel Ray Drop New Single & Video “Teen (Cult) Song”

The rent keeps going up. The cost of living is too damn high. What if everyone moves to the middle of nowhere and we can all hang out? Cel Ray are wondering this very thing on their latest single, Teen (Cult) Song, which is out today with a video directed by Katelyn Douglass. This is the third single from the band’s upcoming album, Cel Rayzer, that is due out on July 24th via Exploding In Sound Records, an album that jitters with punk exuberance, a rattled sense of humor, big nasty riffs, and rhythms that pound with art punk and hardcore dexterity. Recorded together with Doug Malone at Jamdek, Cel Ray rip through ten charismatic punk tunes with hardcore velocity. The riffs are huge and melodic, the drums are pounding, and vocalist Maddie Daviss‘ dynamic presence as one of punk music’s most radiant front people is undeniable. With lyrics that are simultaneously political and comedic, Daviss proves you can make a point and still have a great time in the process.

“When I first heard this song the boys had written I thought it was something they would play at the Bait Shop, the fictional pier-side rock club frequented by the teens on The OC which I was rewatching at the time, hence “Teen Song”. But! The song is about how we all rent these apartments in the city and make our art and work our jobs, but the rent keeps going up. I know myself and many other people have fantasized about ‘everyone’ moving to some random place in the country where we could all afford homes and land and grow food and make art and retain our own culture because we are all doing it together, which sounds like a cult. But also like a big beautiful teenage style life dream.” (Maddie Daviss)