Album artwork for Room Inside the World by Ought
Album artwork for Room Inside the World by Ought

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. This album 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.

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.

CD - 4-panel Digipak includes 8-panel poster-style folder insert.

LP - Black 140 Gram Vinyl housed in a double Gatefold jacket with matte coating, 12 x 12 in. 4/4 insert.

LP+ - Limited to 2000 Copies on White 140 Gram Vinyl housed in a double Gatefold jacket with matte coating, 12 x 12 in. 4/4 insert.

Ought

Room Inside the World

Merge Records
Album artwork for Room Inside the World by Ought
LP

£19.99

Black 140 Gram Vinyl housed in a double Gatefold jacket with matte coating, 12 x 12 in. 4/4 insert.

Released 16/02/2018Catalogue Number

mrg608lp

Learn more
Ought

Room Inside the World

Merge Records
Album artwork for Room Inside the World by Ought
LP

£19.99

Black 140 Gram Vinyl housed in a double Gatefold jacket with matte coating, 12 x 12 in. 4/4 insert.

Released 16/02/2018Catalogue Number

mrg608lp

Learn more

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. This album 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.

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.

CD - 4-panel Digipak includes 8-panel poster-style folder insert.

LP - Black 140 Gram Vinyl housed in a double Gatefold jacket with matte coating, 12 x 12 in. 4/4 insert.

LP+ - Limited to 2000 Copies on White 140 Gram Vinyl housed in a double Gatefold jacket with matte coating, 12 x 12 in. 4/4 insert.