Beta Love

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Beta Love
Beta Love by Ra Ra Riot.jpg
Studio album by
Ra Ra Riot
ReleasedJanuary 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)
Genre Indie rock, indie pop, electronica, synth-pop
Length30:15
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]

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 59/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Pitchfork (5.2/10) [4]
Sputnikmusic (2.3/5) [5]
The A.V. Club C− [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ra Ra Riot (Wes Miles, Mathieu Santos, Milo Bonacci, Rebecca Zeller).

No.TitleLength
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

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Personnel

Ra Ra Riot

Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Grow K. (February 7, 2013). "Five Ways William Gibson and Ray Kurzweil Influenced Ra Ra Riot's New Album". MTV Hive. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Beta Love by Ra Ra Riot". Metacritic . Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ AllMusic review
  4. ↑ Brown, Harley (January 21, 2013). "Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 7, 2026.
  5. ↑ Rudy K. (January 24, 2013). "Album Review - Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ Murray, Noel (January 22, 2013). "Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 7, 2026.


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