Ra Ra Riot Line Up February Release For New LP 'Need Your Light'
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Written by Laura Johnson
Ra Ra Riot have revealed plans to release their new album, 'Need Your Light', in February.
The Brooklyn quintet's fourth full-length offering is due February 19 via Barsuk. Meanwhile, you can check out Water, the record's first single and a collaboration with Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, and the album artwork below. Discussing the track, Batmanglij said:
"Between 2005-2009, Wes and I wrote an album together in snatched moments in our lives... That record (the ‘Discovery’ LP) seemed to benefit from us having the freedom to pick it up and put it down. In January of this year, Wes came to stay with me, and we set out to write songs again. We didn't know where it would take us. There was something I'd heard in Wes's singing in the earliest days of seeing Ra Ra Riot live that I felt had never quite been captured on record. There was our shared love of U2'sAchtung Baby, something that having listened to the music we've recorded in our lives thus far you might not know about. And also this obsession with writing songs that tell stories. So we spent five days writing just two songs - Water and I Need Your Light- and I think we found that same freedom in making these songs that we had found years ago making the ‘Discovery’ record, not knowing where it would take us."
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