Ought

Ought - These 3 Things

On Room Inside the World—Ought’s third album and their 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.

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Events featuring Ought

Mar 14, 2018
11:10pm — 11:45pm
Presented by
Ground Control Touring
Mar 16, 2018
12:05am — 12:45am
Presented by
Secretly Group
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Montreal, QC, CANADA
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Subgenre:
Post-Punk