The Orchard

Ra Ra Riot's debut full-length, The Rhumb Line, was released in the summer of 2008, and it brought with it some beautiful and sparkly ruminations on the fragile things in life (namely life, death and love) and much critical praise. The band retreated to a country property in upstate New York to write and record, and now announce The Orchard. Anticipation is feverish for new music, and the new album is an incredibly self-assured step for the band, delivering both hook-laden pop jams like first single 'Boy' and the new-but-familiar-to-live-audiences 'Too Dramatic,' and ruminative slow-burns like the Anton Chekov/Kate Bush-inspired 'The Orchard' and album-closer 'Keep It Quiet.'