Bumbershoot

Formed in the basements and attics surrounding Syracuse University, Ra Ra Riot released their full-length debut, The Rhumb Line, on Barsuk in 2008. Their most recent release, Beta Love, marks the band’s first outing as a leaner four-piece and a transition from strings to synthesizers. With this release they focus on their flourishing synthpop sound and incorporate the influence of cyperpunk novelist William Gibson and futurist Ray Kurzweil’s musings on the technological singularity and transhumanism.