Riff Raff (3)
Vinyl Futures

Listening notes

Riff Raff (3) released Vinyl Futures on ATCO Records in 1981, catalogued as SD 32-108. The record spans ten tracks across two sides and is classified under hard rock, heavy metal, and rock.

Side A opens with "Nina" at three minutes and fifty seconds, followed by the shorter "Shades Of Blue" at two minutes and thirty-three seconds. "Treat Me Right" and "I Ain't Gonna Run Anymore" run at nearly identical lengths, clocking in at three minutes and four seconds and three minutes and five seconds respectively. Side A closes with "Mary Lou," the longest track on the first half at four minutes and twenty-six seconds.

Side B begins with "My, My" at three minutes and twenty-four seconds, then moves to "Love In Vain," the briefest track on the album at two minutes and thirty-one seconds. "Heroes" follows at three minutes and twelve seconds, with "Time Riff" arriving next at two minutes and fifty-five seconds. The record closes with "Hall Of Mirrors," which at six minutes and one second is the longest track on the album by a considerable margin.

The total runtime across both sides reflects a concise album structured around tracks that generally fall in the two-to-four minute range, with "Hall Of Mirrors" standing as a notable outlier in length. The parenthetical designation of this act as Riff Raff (3) indicates the artist is distinguished from other acts sharing the same name in discographic databases. The album was released on ATCO Records, a label with roots in the Atlantic Records family, during 1981.