Room Inside the World Ought SKU: MRG608LP Barcode: 673855060811 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Released Date: 16th February 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info On Room Inside the World—Ought’s third album and first for Merge—growing up doesn’t mean mellowing out so much as it means learning to pay attention, listening carefully and openly, staying somewhere long enough to really understand where you are. Recorded at Rare Book Room in Brooklyn with producer Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Silver Jews), Room Inside the World explores themes that have always concerned the band—identity, connection, survival in a precarious world—but with a bolder, more nuanced sound palette. Vibraphone, justly intonated synthesizers, drum machines, and a 70-piece choir suffuse the precise post-punk breakdowns that spangled Ought’s first two albums, giving rise to an emotional complexity that pushes their characteristically taut sound to greater depths. Ought approached this record with newfound patience, constructing a (digital) moodboard to set their intentions: Brian Eno and Stereolab synths, the Mekons’ 1985 album Fear and Whiskey, and Gerhard Richter and Kenneth Anger’s sexy, fluorescent hyperreal all made it into the melting pot. “The process of everybody wading into each other’s subconscious was really excellent,” says frontman, guitarist, and lyricist Tim Darcy. Holed up in their rehearsal building, an industrial rock block (and sock factory) overlooking the Trans-Canada Highway, the band strove for greater detail and specificity than before while remaining true to the collaborative, intuitive writing process that yielded their earlier work. On Room Inside the World, Ought gnaw at questions that have hovered around their music since they first began playing: How do you live in this world without destroying yourself? What is it that we can do for each other to make the lives we’ve been given easier? Room Inside the World steps away from the nervousness and irony that characterizes Ought’s previous records. Instead of winkingly asking you to open your textbooks, as on More Than Any Other Day, here they’re imploring you to look inside yourself and then around you, to tease out and melt away the barriers that keep people separated from one another. It makes for a different kind of catharsis: the quiet satisfaction of a job well done, the glow of seeing someone as they are, the soft simmer of real love. It’s like finding a space inside the world where you can sit down for a bit, a room where there’s room enough for everyone. The record ends on a comma, a quick fade, a sharp intake of breath, and you find yourself right back where you began. Artist Ought Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings SIDE A Into the Sea Disgraced in America Disaffectation These 3 Things Desire SIDE B Brief Shield Take Everything Pieces Wasted Alice Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Ought and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Ought Sun Coming Down Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Constellation | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th September 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ought Sun Coming Down £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Constellation SKU: CST115LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ought More Than Any Other Day Rock And Pop | Constellation | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th May 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back 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