{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Beta Love | type = studio | artist = Ra Ra Riot | cover = Beta Love by Ra Ra Riot.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|2013|1|22}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Indie rock, indie pop, electronica, synth-pop | length = 30:15 | label = Barsuk | producer = Dennis Herring | prev_title = The Orchard | prev_year = 2010 | next_title = Need Your Light | next_year = 2016 }}

'''''Beta Love''''' is the third studio album of the Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot. It is the first album since the departure of founding member/cellist, Alexandra Lawn, who left the band in 2012. Band members have stated that the album is directly influenced by sci-fi author William Gibson and inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil.<ref>{{cite web|last=Grow K.|title=Five Ways William Gibson and Ray Kurzweil Influenced Ra Ra Riot's New Album|url=http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/02/07/ra-ra-riot-beta-love-william-gibson/|publisher=MTV Hive|accessdate=11 February 2013|date=Feb 7, 2013}}</ref>

{{Music ratings |MC = 59/100<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/beta-love/ra-ra-riot|title=Beta Love by Ra Ra Riot|website=Metacritic |publisher=|accessdate=1 October 2016}}</ref> |rev1 = ''AllMusic'' |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2663657|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''Pitchfork'' |rev2Score = (5.2/10)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17513-beta-love/ |title=Ra Ra Riot: ''Beta Love'' |work=Pitchfork |author=Brown, Harley |date=January 21, 2013 |access-date=February 7, 2026}}</ref> |rev3 = Sputnikmusic |rev3Score = (2.3/5)<ref>{{cite web|last=Rudy K.|title=Album Review - Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/54565/Ra-Ra-Riot-Beta-Love/|publisher=Sputnikmusic|accessdate=25 January 2013|date=Jan 24, 2013}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The A.V. Club'' |rev4Score = C−<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/ra-ra-riot-beta-love-1798175540|title=Ra Ra Riot: ''Beta Love''|work=The A.V. Club|author=Murray, Noel|date=January 22, 2013|access-date=February 7, 2026}}</ref> }}

==Track listing==

{{track listing | all_writing = Ra Ra Riot (Wes Miles, Mathieu Santos, Milo Bonacci, Rebecca Zeller) | headline = | title1 = Dance with Me | length1 = 2:24 | title2 = Binary Mind | length2 = 3:13 | title3 = Beta Love | length3 = 2:56 | title4 = Is It Too Much | length4 = 2:40 | title5 = For Once | length5 = 2:29 | title6 = Angel, Please | length6 = 2:46 | title7 = What I Do for U | length7 = 1:44 | title8 = When I Dream | length8 = 3:06 | title9 = That Much | length9 = 2:42 | title10 = Wilderness | length10 = 3:09 | title11 = I Shut Off | length11 = 3:10 }}

===Videos=== * "Beta Love": Directed and Edited by David Dean Burkhart * "Dance With Me": Directed by Christopher Mills * "Binary Mind": Directed by Cole Hannan

==Personnel==

===Ra Ra Riot=== *Wes Miles - vocals, keyboards *Mathieu Santos - bass *Milo Bonacci - guitar, keyboards *Rebecca Zeller - violin

===Additional personnel=== *Will Cole - engineering *Dennis Herring - mixing, production *Drew Vandenberg - engineering, mixing *Howie Weinberg - mastering engineer

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==External links== *[http://www.rarariot.com/ Official website] *[https://www.myspace.com/rarariot MySpace website] *[http://www.barsuk.com/ Barsuk Records]

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