Olympia, Washington singer and songcrafter Emily Beanblossom took on the name Ruby Fray in 2011 as a moniker for her solo work apart from her other collaborative endeavors. Beanblossom was active in the Olympia scene in bands like Turf Surgery, Legs the Crab, Karczol and others, but was best known as the frontwoman for the raucous noise rock band Christmas. Following an extensive US tour with Christmas, the singer retreated for a time to her family farm and began work on the darker, more organic sounds that would become Ruby Fray. Between gigs with Christmas and her fledgling business as a soap maker, she began performing stripped down solo shows with these new songs. In 2012, Beanblossom relocated from Olympia to Austin, Texas where she began performing Ruby Fray shows more frequently. In the spring of 2012, Ruby Fray's debut LP Pith was released on K Records. Pith found Beanblossom's goth-charged indie songs augmented by a cast of players fr...