Ra Ra Riot 'The Rhumb Line'

Ra Ra Riot's orchestrally-rich, perpetually peppy indie-pop betrays both the band's black back-story and frontman Wesley Miles' poetic ambitions. Drawing from wordsmiths like e.e. cummings and Virginia Woolf, Miles maps human emotion onto the snowy New England landscape, and plots humanity's fraught awareness of their own mortality amidst the natural cycle of decay/death/rebirth. Given that original Ra Ra Riot drummer John Pike drowned in Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts in 2007, there's a sense of sadness in every word, adding layers of darkness and depth to RRR's jaunty indie jams. And the learned, librarian nature of Miles' inspirations makes Ra Ra Riot the coolest combo to flaunt scholastic aptitude this side of their pals Vampire Weekend.

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