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The Rhumb Line

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Released
  
August 19, 2008

Label
  
Barsuk

Artist
  
Ra Ra Riot

Producer
  
Ryan Hadlock

Length
  
36:58

The Rhumb Line (2008)
  
The Orchard (2010)

Release date
  
19 August 2008

Genres
  
Indie rock, Indie pop

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Recorded
  
Bear Creek Studio, Seattle (December, 2007)

Nominations
  
Independent Music Award for Best Album - Pop

Similar
  
Ra Ra Riot albums, Indie rock albums

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The Rhumb Line is the debut LP for the Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot. Recorded in late 2007 with Ryan Hadlock in Woodinville, WA, the band released their debut album on August 19, 2008, through Seattle-based indie label Barsuk Records. The album peaked at #109 on the Billboard 200. This album was ranked as the 38th best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone.

Contents

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Songs

The track listing includes the Kate Bush cover "Suspended in Gaffa". Other songs, "Ghost Under Rocks", "Each Year", "Dying Is Fine", and "Can You Tell", previously appeared on the band's 2007 self-titled EP. Also, during a WOXY.com Lounge Act session (January 30, 2008), the band showcased "Too Too Too Fast", "Oh, La", and "Run My Mouth". Several of the songs contained in the album are literary references such as "Each Year" which appears to be written about Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and "Dying Is Fine" using the poem by E.E. Cummings. "St. Peter's Day Festival" commemorates the loss of band mate John Pike, who went missing in June 2007 but was later found dead in Buzzard's Bay.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ra Ra Riot (Wes Miles, Mathieu Santos, Milo Bonacci, Alexandra Lawn, Rebecca Zeller), except where noted.

  1. "Ghost Under Rocks" (John Pike, Ra Ra Riot) – 4:26
  2. "Each Year" (John Pike, Ra Ra Riot) – 3:16
  3. "St. Peter's Day Festival" (John Pike, Wes Miles) – 3:34
  4. "Winter '05" – 2:57
  5. "Dying Is Fine" (John Pike, Wes Miles, e. e. cummings) – 3:52
  6. "Can You Tell" – 2:42
  7. "Too Too Too Fast" (John Pike, Ra Ra Riot) – 3:46
  8. "Oh, La" – 4:42
  9. "Suspended in Gaffa" (Kate Bush) – 3:48
  10. "Run My Mouth" – 3:58

Videos

  • "Dying Is Fine" on YouTube: Directed by Albert Birney, Nicholas Gurewitch, and Jon Moses.
  • "Ghost Under Rocks": Directed by Brian Savelson.
  • "Can You Tell": Directed by Taryn Gould and Emily Kowalczyk

    • Personnel

  • Milo Bonacci – guitar
  • Alexandra Lawn – cello
  • Wesley Miles – keyboards, vocals
  • Mathieu Santos – bass guitar
  • Rebecca Zeller – violin
  • Cameron Wisch – drums

    • Songs

    1Ghost Under Rocks4:27
    2Each Year3:17
    3St Peter's Day Festival3:35

    References

    The Rhumb Line Wikipedia
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