Ra Ra Riot

Last summer, not long after Ra Ra Riot released a promising EP, their drummer, John Ryan
Pike, drowned in the ocean after a show in Massachusetts. His death weighs heavily on
their excellent full-length debut, much of which he co-wrote. Taking its name from a bar
close to Pike's home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, The Rhumb Line abounds with death and
water imagery, vividly evoking loss in a seaside town. But if the music is funereal,... More >