Album Review: The Raah Project -- Take Me Elsewhere

The RAah Project could never be accused of thinking small.

The vision of the ambitious Melburnian duo is undeniably widescreen, taking in the spirit of Australian pub rock, the sweeping sounds of a full-blown orchestra and sprinkles of their original incarnation within the city’s hip hop and dance scenes. Their sprawling second album is dreamy, sombre and angsty, yet ultimately uplifting, vocalist Ryan Ritchie straying into Tex Perkins territory only to be rescued from the abyss by swelling orchestral strings and the ebbing and flowing of aggressive drum patterns and flashes of electro-tinged synth.