Beta Love

Beta Love
Studio album by Ra Ra Riot
Released January 22, 2013
Genre Indie rock, indie pop, electronica, synthpop
Length 30:15
Label Barsuk
Producer Dennis Herring
Ra Ra Riot chronology
The Orchard
(2010)		 Beta Love
(2013)		 Need Your Light
(2016)

Beta Love is the third studio album of the Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot. It is the first album since the departure of founding member/cellist, Alexandra Lawn, who left the band in 2012. Band members have stated that the album is directly influenced by sci-fi author William Gibson and inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil.[1]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic59/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Pitchfork(5.2/10)
Sputnikmusic(2.3/5)[4]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ra Ra Riot (Wes Miles, Mathieu Santos, Milo Bonacci, Rebecca Zeller). 

No. Title Length
1. "Dance with Me"   2:24
2. "Binary Mind"   3:13
3. "Beta Love"   2:56
4. "Is It Too Much"   2:40
5. "For Once"   2:29
6. "Angel, Please"   2:46
7. "What I Do for U"   1:44
8. "When I Dream"   3:06
9. "That Much"   2:42
10. "Wilderness"   3:09
11. "I Shut Off"   3:10

Videos

Personnel

Ra Ra Riot

Additional Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Grow K. (Feb 7, 2013). "Five Ways William Gibson and Ray Kurzweil Influenced Ra Ra Riot’s New Album". MTV Hive. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/beta-love/ra-ra-riot
  3. ↑ Allmusic review
  4. ↑ Rudy K. (Jan 24, 2013). "Album Review - Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 25 January 2013.

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