Included in:
-Paste's Best Albums of 2018 (#27)
-Paste's Best Songs of 2018 (#36 "Disgraced in America")  

All formats of Room Inside the World feature paintings by artist Erin Lawlor.

CD: Packaged in a four-panel matte-finish digipak. Includes a mini-poster insert with artwork and lyrics.

LP: Black vinyl housed in a matte-finish gatefold jacket with a full-color insert containing artwork and lyrics. Album download included.

Peak Vinyl: Pressed on white vinyl. Same packaging details as the standard LP, including album download. 

The album can also be found at these independent record stores.

+++

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.