Video: RKCB, ‘Alone With You Pt. 2’

Daiana Feuer on October 8th, 2018

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Bandmates and friends since their days at University of Southern California, RKCB‘s Riley Knapp and Casey Barth were reading Alan Watts’ “Out of Your Mind” while on a trip to London, and felt inspired by the notion that in order to come to your senses, a person sometimes needs to go out of their mind. “It was like this big veil had been lifted, and we both felt the energy,” says Barth. “Watts’ book really opened up a lot, philosophically and emotionally, that we wanted to explore in the music.” Translating those impulses into electronic R&B/pop, they named their project after their initials and released their debut EP, “Short Films,” in 2015. Last year they introduced a series of connected singles under the umbrella “Alone, With You,” to cover the arc of a relationship across three songs, “Vice,” “Bloom” and “Naive.”

They’re picking up where that left off with “Alone With You Pt. 2,” which revisits the relationship from a new perspective. “We are brought to life when with our partners, we are able to see more clearly; and without them, we feel disoriented and disconnected,” says the band. The song and Mike O’Brien-directed video “also represent an ever-changing idea of someone, but being connected to them is vital.”

||| Watch: “Alone With You Pt. 2”