The Ropes are an indie rock duo from New York City, composed of vocalist and bassist Sharon Shy and multi-instrumentalist Toppy.

"[20] The Ropes started a new project with a more electronic sound called R. Missing and released an album in March 2017 on the Talitres Records label titled Unsummering.

Music magazine The Big Takeover wrote: "Unsummering manages to be even more isolated lyrically than The Ropes’ famously nihilistic previous work, fully embracing complete detachment.

Musically, fraught guitar and synth textures paint an image of an unstable world, held together only by tightly quantized electronic drum beats and Shy’s coolly dispassionate vocal.

"[21] The Ropes have been compared to The Cure, Interpol,[7] Garbage,[22] Poe,[3] The Knife[23] and the Velvet Underground, and they cite 1950s French New Wave as an influence.