# Art Punks RIP ROOM Release New Album ‘Alight and Resound’

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- Published: 2022-05-27T14:30:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**San Francisco Art Punks Rip Room Release New Album ‘Alight and Resound’**

**Recorded with Engineer Tim Green (Melvins, Bikini Kill, Sebadoh)**

**Trio Debuts New Music Video “Complication” **

FFO: Gang of Four, DEVO, Unwound, Fugazi

[**Stream ‘Alight and Resound’ Here**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7004269.17610.1.69808c1f6d1c60fd987450d1744d5a2d)

[**Watch The “Complication” Video Here**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7004269.17611.1.bb4d70d2d854b618ba85bfd9313d99d1)

_“If the Revolution needs a dance party, Rip Room wrote the soundtrack.”- _**_Tuned
Up_**

_“What If Devo Jammed w/ Fugazi? San Francisco Trio Answers on “Complication.” Could
have easily been featured on a classic Dischord Records or Kill Rock Stars comp 
back in the day.”- _**_No Echo_**

_“San Francisco’s Rip Room make post-hardcore music with an air of art pop exuberance.”-_**
_Post-Trash_**

_“San Francisco band Rip Room sound like if you put Devo and Fugazi in a blender.
That’s a serious compliment. Any and all bands taking the more cerebral art punk
route are cause for celebration.”- _**_Riff Magazine_**

San Francisco art-punk trio **Rip Room** has released its Spartan Records debut 
LP **‘Alight and Resound.’**

**Stream the album here: [https://orcd.co/riproom](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7004269.17613.1.6101dfa5981005b86a8c7e0769868808)**

**Order vinyl here: [https://spr.tn/riproom](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7004269.17614.1.72b0d934b954164a257793c97f24e22a)**

Of the new music video for the album track “Complication”, the band says, _“Shot
in isolation out of necessity, director Parker Langvardt erased any traces of zoom-
call anxiety with live analog mixing and editing. The video captures the band working
to maintain their chops in hopes of a not-soon-enough reunion, while the glitched-
out visuals reflect the song’s bleak vision of a society where nothing quite works.”_

**Watch the video here: [https://youtu.be/qAIGg5Nj2J8](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7004269.17615.1.72bc2a8de5f51aac61813f39120ec5fa)**

Rip Room - "Complication" (Official Music Video) - Available Now

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**RIP ROOM:** 
John Reed – Vocals/Guitar Sarah McKinney – Bass/Vocals Gracie Malley–
Drums

In a time of digital polish and studio patchwork, it has become increasingly rare
to hear a record that captures the lightning-in-a-bottle dynamics of a live performance.
Music continues to fill our queues, but it feels less and less human, so when a 
record breaks through the static, it can be a revelation. Introducing the wound-
up art punks in San Francisco’s Rip Room.

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After successfully self-releasing and touring on two EPs, the three-piece returned
to Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA to reunite with storied engineer **Tim Green(
Nation of Ulysses, Melvins, Bikini Kill, Sebadoh)**. The result is the charismatic
and alluringly unpredictable debut full-length record, ‘Alight and Resound’, twelve
pulsing songs that harken back to better musical times while somehow embracing the
relevance of the moment. Think **Unwound, Sleater-Kinney, and Fugazi.** Propulsive
rhythms and piercing lyrics, but with a sense of buoyancy. Brashness over banality.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing.

_“I wanted to be in a fun, high-energy band, but with a math-y, prog edge,”_ says
Reed. _“We’re always looking to capture our live sound, and with this record, we
wanted that plus a little more to emphasize some ideas or sonic feelings,”_ adds
bassist/vocalist Sarah McKinney. _“The subject matter is pretty heavy, but the execution
is sometimes a bit more lighthearted and dance-y which I think balances it out well.
Our sound was once described as ‘dance music for people who don’t like to dance,’
which I don’t agree with — I’d say it’s ‘dance music for people who like to dance
but are also bummed out’.”_

Thematically, while instrumentally effervescent, ‘Alight and Resound’ delves into
some more turbulent lyrical waters. Loneliness, chaos, despair, and struggle — yet
somehow with a glimmer of hope. _“The title of the record is a lyric from the song‘
Get On In The World,’ which is in part about frustration and not really fitting 
in,”_ says Reed. _“Everyone’s focused or too wrapped up in their own shit and sadly
this too often devolves into misunderstandings, at best, and violence, at worst.
Alight and Resound is like a plea — move to a different plane of understanding and
empathy or else we’re fucked.”_

Thriving in the Bay Area is no simple task for a band in these times. As competition
grows, venues close, and rents continue to rise, the desire for authenticity in 
art will only increase. Alight and Resound is a testament to the power of seeking
brashness over banality. There is perceptible life and light in the recordings that
grow with each listen, and the authenticity of the experience is both palpable and
revitalizing.

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**More Praise For Rip Room:**

_“Noisy, Dischord-inspired post-hardcore.”- _**_The Alternative_**

_“Razor-sharp blend of noise rock, punk, and art rock with plenty of intensity and
grit.”- _**_Destroy/Exist_**

_“With the fervor of Unwound, Hüsker Dü, Sleater-Kinney, and Fugazi, Rip Room spews
out propulsive rhythms and piercing lyrics wrapped in a buoyant glee.”- _**_Post-
Punk_**

_“Art punk that just straight up rocks. “Complication,” is an amalgam of a bunch
of your favorite classic punk sounds and bands. There’s the post punk of Gang of
Four, the buzzing guitars of Dead Kennedys, the bouncy New Wave goes almost pop 
of Talking Heads and B-52s, and even some of the noise of Sonic Youth…as furious
as it is pop adjacent. It sounds like punk made for adults who are still angry at
the world but don’t have the energy to be mad all the time.” – _**_If It’s Too Loud_**

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