Ra Ra Riot - Ra Ra Riot - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another's cities - she in Durham, NC, he in Marfa, TX - for a week or so at a time, hunkering in home studios to sort through and combine their separate song sketches. These shorter stints together produced less second-guessing and hesitation in their process, yielding an unabashed and unapologetic Wye Oak. They discarded past rules about how to write a record, instead funneling all those experiences and experiments into perfectly unified statements. The result is the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak has ever made. Louder... pursues a litany of modern malaises, each of it's 12 tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song's subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked. It arrives at a time of immense doubt, when our personal problems are infinitely compounded by a world that seems in existential peril. But these songs answer the challenge by radiating self-reflection and resolve, wielding hooks and musical intricacy as a shield against the madness of the moment. Album Tracks 1. (Tuning) 2. The Instrument 3. The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs 4. Lifer 5. It Was Not Natural 6. Symmetry 7. My Signal 8. Say Hello 9. Over and Over 10. You of All People 11. Join 12. I Know It's Real

2019 . Superbloom finds Ra Ra Riot taking a decidedly pop-minded approach to the album-making process. In shedding their inhibitions, Ra Ra Riot ultimately created an impossibly radiant album, a selection of songs powered by imaginative yet indelible melodies. At the same time, the band maintains the offbeat eclecticism they've embraced since first forming as a baroque-pop outfit back in the mid-2000s, embedding Superbloom's lavish arrangements with elements of psychedelia, new wave, punk and country. Album Tracks 1. Flowers 2. Bad to Worse 3. Belladonna 4. Endless Pain/Endless Joy 5. War & Famine 6. Bitter Conversation 7. This Time of Year 8. Gimme Time 9. Backroads 10. Dangerous 11. An Accident 12. A Check for Daniel

Album Tracks 1. The Orchard 2. Boy 3. Too Dramatic 4. Foolish 5. Massachusetts 6. You and I Know 7. Shadowcasting 8. Do You Remember 9. Kansai 10. Keep It Quiet