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open_FaEHZ\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content_ETGfR\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"notes_VIDcE\"\u003eBlack Vinyl\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"main_cQEFk\"\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"release-barcodes\" class=\"section_Odw8o open_FaEHZ\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content_ETGfR\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"simple_N5QY2\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-labelSmall css-1kybk0l\"\u003eBarcode:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e683950558717\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarnival finds the Fort Worth's trauma ray capturing some of their strongest, most intense, and exploratory work within the boundaries of a whirlwind year. The breakout success of Chameleon, their 2024 debut on Dais Records, further established the band amidst the current wave of shoegaze revivalists, yet increasingly agile, able to weave between scenes, touring throughout 2025 with the likes of Deafheaven, Loathe, and Touche ́ Amore.́ A confluence of blitzing riffs and stark beauty, their sound continues to evolve, nodding to loud-quiet-loud greats across metal, grunge, and shoegaze from Slowdive to Smashing Pumpkins. Carnival delves into moodier, more cerebral material, like holding their past excursions against a funhouse mirror. There's a distinct sense of unease in these songs, built as a band in a fleeting window of time, proving they work best under pressure and when pulling from the darkest corners of their subconscious. The wordless \"Carousel\" ushers in the EP's unsettling atmosphere with blasts of static and downcast strums giving way to \"Hannibal\", an anthemic track packed with power riffs and raw emotion. The band has hit this kind of sheer power before, from 2018's \"Solstice\" to Chameleon's title track, while \"Hannibal\" contorts with a tinge of unprecedented evil, slithery, \"Stone Temple-y, Alice in Chains-y,\" Avila quips. Lyrically, he taps into teenage angst, the feeling of being dissected and rejected. \"Méliès\", named after the French illusionist and filmmaker cuts between heavy, sludgy chords and a skyward chorus, \"from something scary to like a dream state,\" says Avila, who channels the namesake's surreal abstraction. His lines detail, \"being stuck in your head and just making up realities that probably aren't the real thing going on, when you don't want to face the truth.\" \"Funhouse\" dips into doom metal, with sparse guitar work and possibly the band's slowest ever BPM, as self-proclaimed Sleep-heads. Lyrics play with shifting perspectives, culminating in the call-and-response outro (\"take my hand \/ this is not your wonderland\") that conjures two forces, or frames of mind, at odds with one another. In contrast, the final track \"Clown\" jolts, flashes, and pummels, like the listener has come out the other end of a house of horrors, now fully immersed in the jarring, disorienting lights of the carnival. Personified by a knotty, synthy lead guitar squal — \"the lead tone is something I'm super proud of, we've never had something like that in a trauma ray song,\" per Perez — \"Clown\" reminds them of Robin Williams, an archetype of tragic happiness, how the people trying the hardest to make others laugh may privately be the saddest. Sonically, the band is quick to credit the influence of “Undone” and “Stuck on You” by '90s cult favorite Failure, alongside the omnipresent Loveless, which gets to the greatness of trauma ray: five musicians absorbing, synthesizing, and expanding on what they love. Carnival offers a brief and highly loopable detour into darkness from a band growing more formidable by the mile.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45548454707398,"sku":"683950558717","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1377\/6983\/files\/DAIS247_380px.jpg?v=1771439064","url":"https:\/\/www.shugarecords.com\/products\/trauma-ray-carnival-new-ep-record-2026-dais-black-vinyl-alternative-rock-grunge-shoegaze","provider":"Shuga Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}