Best Local Albums 2017: FayRoy makes magic out of storm clouds on Heaven At Twenty-Seven

Beach-goth ecstasy.


Fay Roy — Heaven At Twenty-Seven The move back home from San Francisco has been amazing for this band of best friends, and local fans of shimmery beach-goth and pop are all the better for it, too. There’s many a moment of minor chord sadness floating around this quick 18-minute journey, but the storm clouds eventually give way to hopeful and intoxicating answers for the kind of existential dilemmas Floridians tend to get themselves into while taking the kind of sandy Sunday-night strolls by the ocean that'll make you wanna quit your day job forever.

See a full recap of the year's best local albums in the new issue of Creative Loafing Tampa. Check out the full list via cltampa.com/music. Call your local record store to see if it has this release.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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