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Artist
Ready Fire Aim
12+ albums
indiepower popsynthpopDepeche ModePostal Service
about
When you’re literally willing to take a bullet for your art, chances are you’re dead-serious about making a statement—either that, or you’re just plain loco. Singer, poet, author, actor and political commentator Sage Rader is probably a little “all-of-the-above,” but where such an apparent contradiction in emotional states might throw the average bloke into a helpless freakout, Sage seems to thrive on it as just another empowering duality. In his world, demons and angels co-exist on an equal footing, all that is beautiful can easily turn hideous and everything you ever believed can fly out the window on the wings of betrayal. In the quite otherworldly aural experience of Ready Fire Aim—Sage’s latest beat-laden collaboration with DJ and producer Stakka (Shaun Morris)—music is the medium that communicates all this and more with the finality of a death-dealing weapon. Sure, it sounds a little heavy-handed, but This Changes Nothing (Expansion Team Records) is the kind of album that commands such attention and RFA is the kind of group that comes along just when it seems like the blahs have completely overtaken the underground. Melding sensibilities rooted in techno, synth-pop, art rock, avant-classical and straight-up indie electronic dance music, RFA have come up with a stealth concept album that conjures shades of Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, The Postal Service and even Pink Floyd, but with a twisted, hyper-processed and hypnotic sound that truly sets them apart. And you can
