CD Review: Ra Ra Riot "The Orchard"

 

Published: August 13, 2010

ALTERNATIVE Ra Ra Riot "The Orchard" (Barsuk)

Ra Ra Riot's second album, "The Orchard," finds the New York band filing off some of the rough edges found on 2008's "The Rhumb Line" and emerging as an indie-orchestral Fleetwood Mac : The melodies are brighter and lighter, the arrangements more spacious and less claustrophobic. There seems to be little on the band's mind beyond the polit...


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