{"id":1253,"date":"2016-02-17T02:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T09:11:42","slug":"ra-ra-riot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2016\/02\/17\/ra-ra-riot-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra Ra Riot \u2013 Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the song. I&#8217;m not took blown away by the video. I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ra Ra Riot - Water (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-cxevaA-38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the album\u00a0Need Your Light (2016).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1616\/25021179896_680d0547c3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Consequence of Sound Says:<\/p>\n<p>Everyone, it seems, wants more from Wesley Miles. The singer of baroque-gone-synth pop band <a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/artist\/ra-ra-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ra Ra Riot<\/a>, Miles seems to inspire a particular imagination from his collaborating producers. Ra Ra Riot has worked with Ryan Hadlock (who went on to produce the Lumineers), Andrew Maury of RAC, Dennis Herring (who produced Modest Mouse\u2019s path to the mainstream), and on their most recent LP, <em>Need Your Light<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/artist\/rostam-batmanglij\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rostam Batmanglij<\/a>, formerly of <a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/artist\/vampire-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vampire Weekend<\/a>. Each album\u00a0represented a new attempt to square the circle of the band\u2019s apparent potential and its equally apparent lack of delivery on it.<\/p>\n<p>It begins, perhaps, with the gap between Ra Ra Riot\u2019s\u00a0live performances and recorded catalog. In 2006, the band\u2019s\u00a0live show evoked a vision of Arcade Fire 2.0: a better lead vocalist, more thrashing, and arrangements with an unmistakable and unrestrained id. Then came the band\u2019s debut self-titled EP.\u00a0Propulsive songs like \u201cDying Is Fine\u201d sounded flat and listless. The EP presented itself as bizarrely empty \u2014 strange for a band priding itself on overflowing fullness. The group\u00a0self-produced the debut EP, the last time they solely controlled the recording of their music.<\/p>\n<p>Full review at:<a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2016\/02\/album-review-ra-ra-riot-need-your-light\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2016\/02\/album-review-ra-ra-riot-need-your-light\/ \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarariot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the song. I&#8217;m not took blown away by the video. I hope you enjoy! From the album\u00a0Need Your Light (2016). Consequence of Sound Says: Everyone, it seems, wants more from Wesley Miles. The singer of baroque-gone-synth pop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/2016\/02\/17\/ra-ra-riot-water\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29,30,42,55],"tags":[118,149],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-rock","category-indie-pop","category-indie-rock","category-poprock","category-synthpop","tag-new-york","tag-syracuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.ed.pacificu.edu\/saputospace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}