Ritt Momney Releases New Singles, “RIGHTBACK” & “CAT”
Ritt Momney—the project of Jack Rutter—releases new singles “RIGHTBACK” and “CAT” from his new album, BASE, out February 27th. Following lead single, “GUNNA,” today’s singles are lo-fi bedroom rock tracks radiating warmth and honesty. “RIGHTBACK” finds Rutter candidly speaking to a loved one about getting back on track, while “CAT” is about the painful process of reinvention. In the latter’s closing lines, he sings: “And I will never understand // Why it hurt so bad // To hold and watch the monster fade away // I feel him getting closer every day.” “CAT” arrives alongside a visualizer, which was made with stop motion animation and was shot entirely with a paper scanner.
To make BASE, Rutter had to let go of everything. He had to get to the point where he thought he might quit music, forever. Letting go of all the expectations he thought people had for him and his music, he hit the reset button and made a record he truly wanted to make.
After viral success following the release of his debut, Her and All My Friends, he put out a cover of Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On.” The song was an unexpected hit, taking off almost half a year after it was initially released, and landing in the Billboard Hot 100. In 2021, he released his second full-length record Sunny Boy, a record of warm to the touch bedroom pop. And then Rutter started to fall out of love with music. “I was starting to feel like I was making music because I had to,” he says, “but then I realized, I didn’t have to do anything I didn’t want to.” This release from expectations was like a lightning bolt: Rutter felt a kind of freedom he had not felt in years. Enter BASE.
“I believe in base creativity,” says Rutter, “Some kind of pure being. A solid foundation.” This was the goal with BASE, to make a record that is rooted in that sort of boundless creativity. To record the album, he joined up with his bandmates, Rick West and Chris Peranich. On his past two records, Rutter would write and produce everything. On BASE, he wanted things to be more collaborative, aiming to have a more live and analog sound. The album was recorded on an 8-track and use computers eventually, but the goal was to make something that sounded organic.
BASE is Rutter’s third record. Since Sunny Boy, he’s bought a house in his native Salt Lake City, gotten married, and started treating his hobbies with the same seriousness he treats his music (for a period of time, he was bowling every morning every day of the week). In other words: he’s made a life for himself. A life where he has created the perfect environment to make music. BASE is the product of this freedom: a roomy, elegant collection of songs about starting over and falling back in love with your art again.
Ritt Momney Tour Dates:
Sun. April 5 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Wed. April 8 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird
Fri. April 10 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
Sat. April 11 – Milwaukee, WI @ Argo
Sun. April 12 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Tue. April 14 – Toronto, ON @ Baby G
Wed. April 15 – Montreal, QC @ Toscadura
Thu. April 16 – Boston, MA @ Sonia
Sat. April 18 – Queens, NY @ Stone Circle
Sun. April 19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Wed. April 22 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
Fri. April 24 – Durham, NC @ Local 506
Sat. April 25 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room
Sun. April 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Purgatory
Tue. April 28 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Resonant Head
Thu. April 30 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Fri. May 1 – Houston, TX @ Meow Wolf
Sat. May 2 – Austin, TX @ Brushy Street Commons
Tue. May 5 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
Fri. May 8 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s
Sat. May 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project
Sun. May 10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Tue. May 12 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Project
Wed. May 13 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
Thu. May 14 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall