A Lovely Riot With Ra Ra Riot

Ra Ra Riot initially happened to be one of those bands that we ran across on youtube after listening to other bands of the same genre. The first song I actually listened to was ‘Dying Is Fine’ from their first album ‘The Rhumb Line’. The depth they have in their music infused with an essence of cheery misery caught more of our attention and decided to follow them ever since then, especially with sounds heavily influenced by NY’s finest, Vampire weekend (Well, Ezra Koenig and Wes Miles did go to the same high school).

To the appetizer of the show served a brilliant opening by local talent ‘The Fridays’, performing songs hilarious with lyrical humor with songs such as ‘Take Me To Topshop’ and a song that was featured on a local music site, The Weekend Sessions, Responsible. Not long after the opening act ended, came the entrée to the night, hailing from upstate New York, Ra Ra Riot! Without front liner lady cum cellist, Alexandra Lawn, my mind was wondering of how their sound would be without their signature string section complete. Regardless, the band came on, crowd cheered on, opening their act with ‘After Years’ picking it up straight after with The Orchards casino online best, ‘Too Dramatic’.

With a replacement cellist on stage hidden in the back, their sound managed to replicate the Remember that saliva Marijuana Detox products would let you have the saliva drug test in about 10 minutes. sound of their softmore years. Adding to the list, the band played notable songs ‘Binary Mind’, to ‘Kansai’, mixed the entire set with their signature string sound contrasting with their new directed techno sound,passing Rebecca back and forth from violin to keyboards (notably pointing out her bedazzled violin). Through the first half, the band faced several technical errors with the fine-tuning of their equipment, affected some of the forementioned songs. Regardless the band managed to progress even with the matters at hand.The show wasn’t in dismay, they picked up their pace and gave the energy the band was known for on stage giving diverse quirks on stage with Wes’ enthusiastic singing and Mat’s quirky bass playing.

Midway, the band dished out ‘Dance With Me’ complemented with their more indie tunes ‘Run My Mouth’, and ‘Wilderness’ jumped to more recent hits from their 2013 album ‘Beta Love’. Picked up their tempo, fans through the floor blissfully closed their eyes or bopped their heads while enjoying the blissful orchestral melodies the 5-man-band had to offer. Especially with their more emotional compositions ‘Dying Is Fine’ and ‘I Shut Off’ stopping to thank the crowd for having them over for the first time in Malaysia, Walked off from the stage right after, displeasing the crowd making them to chant endless for an encore. Floor was banging and the band finally hit back on stage, pulled the old cliché. They played ‘Ghost under rocks’ and finally brought out their undeniably most popular song ‘Boy’ showering the crowd spicing up the show with Wes guiding the crowd to clap in unisen to the two songs.

The crowd was just trembling the floor with applause, the crowd was pleased and the band thanked the crowd again, formally ending the night kicking start their Asian tour with a Ra Ra Riot. (Zafran Aqil/Kristy C)