Ray Bull

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Who is Ray Bull?

That question has been the engine behind one of the internet’s most fascinating indie breakthroughs. Is it one guy? Two? A viral account spiraling into a music project? Ray Bull has spent their existence purposefully blurring these lines. They are artists and they are musicians; they are deeply serious and terminally online; they are a pop group and an art project. With their new album, Please Stop Laughing, they finally offer an answer to the question of who they are, mostly by further obfuscating it.

Aaron Graham and Tucker Elkins make up Ray Bull, but they function less like a traditional band and more like a continuous, living feedback loop. They met while in college at Cooper Union, not as musicians, but as visual artists. When they reconnected years later at a gallery show in Brooklyn, they realized they had both been privately drifting toward music. They moved into a loft in Bushwick, and the lines between their lives and their art began to dissolve.

Knowing nothing about the music industry, they leaned on what they did know: storytelling and image-making. Early viral success came from series like “Did You Know” and “Songs That Are The Same,” experimental media that played with reality and audience belief. Word began to spread, and Ray Bull amassed over a million followers across platforms, which soon became fans of the band’s original songs.

Please Stop Laughing is the sound of two people living, sleeping, and creating on top of one another. The writing process wasn’t just collaborative; it was osmotic. The album borrows from 80s synth-pop, 70s Laurel Canyon intimacy, and contemporary Top 40 polish, choosing collision over consistency. It is an honest reflection of a manufactured identity, and the messy dynamics of two artists working as one.

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