Upset The Rhythm are ecstatic to announce the release of Ravioli Me Away's new album! ‘Living
Is a Myth’ will be released worldwide on November 11th. The gatefold LP will be accompanied by an A1 poster of the band, an
orange slice of vinyl and a lyric book with download code. “I’m nostalgic for now, I traveled far
ahead, I’m looking back with great affection – at this moment” sing RMA on
the album’s title track. It’s hard to imagine a lyric that more perfectly
encapsulates what RMA are all about. Ravioli Me Away provide the commentary to
our internal narrative as we edge through life from one nostalgic moment to the
next. They witness, comment and thus help us identify the means by which we
must escape ourselves.
Artist: Ravioli Me Away
Title: Living Is A Myth
Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR087
Formats: LP / DIGITAL
Track listing:
SIDE A
01.
Wow
02.
Goblin Town
03.
Power In Mind
04.
Holy Eyes
05.
Living is a
Myth
SIDE B
06.
Ultimate
Destruction
07.
Temporary
Lifestyle
08.
No
Communicado
09.
Hot Heavy
Horses
10.
Bijoux Baby
Ravioli Me Away are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway and
Alice Theobald and more recently, have recruited Monika Kroll as an
intermittent member. Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high energy,
dangerously ambitious and delusional jazzy-post-pop-punk-hip-funk sound with
stylistically schizophrenic motifs span all-known past, present and future
human cultures and sub-cultures. This is social realism soaked through with a
heady dose of fantasy, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal
vicissitudes described as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube
footage played with twice the sass and in double time with an incredulous
broadband connection reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright
exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.”
Since
forming in January 2013, they have performed extensively at various events,
venues, festivals and galleries in the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany,
Czech-Republic and Holland. They have also recorded and released records and
appeared on radio shows on 6 Music, Resonance FM and NTS Radio. In 2014 RMA
released their first 12" LP ‘The
Inevitable Album’ on Good Job Records, had a split 180 gram vinyl record
released by independent label Upset The Rhythm, and a Limited Edition tape of
live recorded material produced by Ben Wallers of The Country Teasers/The Rebel
released on Neen Records. This November, RMA will release their second album, ‘Living is a Myth’ with Upset The
Rhythm.
‘Living is a Myth’ is an incredible album,
exploring symptoms of society through its overlapping patterns of ideas and
music. Always inventive, clatter-some drumbeats drive the songs ever onwards,
whilst the bass plunges through the fantastical worlds emerging from the woozy
pools of formidable keyboard tone. RMA see themselves as agents, pointing
out phenomenon and responding to it. This is conducted largely through the
band’s contagious approach to song. Melody and reiteration are at the forefront,
with Dorrer’s wordplay and sublime delivery racing through the songs with
effortless style. Ridgway and Theobald also contribute stunning vocals, often
unpinning the songs with surreal refrains and caustic angles. Moving
onto the topics covered on the album, Ravioli Me Away have mutual interests in
identity, politics, human relationships, love, gender, class and current
affairs, and use their songs as a means to explore, debate and express such
interests, using metaphor, clichéd pop references and repetition.
Available
to pre-order now!
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