Ray Grant

Ray Grant

Ray Grant is a Dutch electronic and pop artist whose work moves between synthpop, trip-hop, electro, and synth-rock. His album Deviations brings together a range of his pop interests and is recorded over the course of two years. The release draws on sounds that suggest both 1980s pop and more contemporary electronic music, while also combining catchy pop structures with a more deliberately unfashionable edge.

Music and style

Grant’s material spans several related styles, moving from synthpop into trip-hop, and from solo work into an electro duo and a synth-rock band before returning to solo work. His songs focus on characters and scenes such as small-town boys, admirers of Mylène Farmer, people who want to be machine-like, and mothers who dislike their sons’ eyeliner. His image is described in terms of clashing tribal tattoos and pink T-shirts.

Associated references

He is linked in style and reference points to artists such as Depeche Mode, and his image and musical approach place him in the territory of artists such as Mika and Younger Younger 28s.