Ripe

Ripe remembers sweating in big drops in a basement under a Subway sandwich shop, composing his very first songs in a concrete cube that smelled of fresh bread. The group remembers selling their first tickets by hand in front of the café where their friends worked, behaving like impresarios in their twenties trying to sell about fifty tickets for a bar that agreed to leave them the sales receipt provided they took care of the room.

In a world where we constantly feel this benevolent pressure to “tell our story”, where so many of our friends who have succeeded as artists have done it alone, Ripe uses his biography to tell you that everything is based above all on collaboration and community, a friendship that has become as strong a bond as that of the family, an object in perpetual movement that no photograph can truly grasp.

The creation and release of their latest album, "Play The Game" was an intense and joyful journey, carrying a growing energy. They worked in dream studios, in a city where they spent years trying their luck, with a producer who had made albums they loved during their formative years, alongside the closest musical partners they had ever had. It is their love letter to a complex nostalgia, to an incessant and liberating change, to the realization that the realization of dreams (just like a crisis) has full meaning only when it is shared.

"Joy In The Wild Unknown" allowed them to tell you who they were. "Bright Blues" has torn them to pieces so they can start from scratch. What follows is the group aiming high, putting everything at stake, risking everything to try to feel connected to you. Thank you for being here.