When you learn about how one of your favourite albums was recorded, it’s hard not to enthuse about it all every time you mention the record. Take Bon Iver for example, rooted Continue reading →

Ratatat have been slowly causing a fuss in the musical expertee community. Third-record, aptly titled ‘LP3′ is on the brink of finding itself in all good record stores and all good people’s end of year lists – it’s their most instantaneous, interesting album to date and we got hold of one half of the duo, Continue reading →

As Ratatat, Evan Mast and Mike Stroud have spent the last five years tearing down the Continue reading →

Last fall, while you were still debating whether LCD Soundsystem or Battles was the best electro-rock band of 2007, Ratatat— Brooklyn’s other white meat—were upstate Continue reading →

The record, which went under Mysteries of the Old Soul as a working title, was recorded during the summer of 2007 in the Catskill Mountains, in a “house inhabited by spirits” and located next door to the home of the original Uncle Sam. Continue reading →

Ratatat stormed onto the scene in 2004 with their debut single ‘Seventeen Years’, which Continue reading →

Ratatat: frequency bad-asses on LP3 by Samuel Strang Whereas most acts get berated for churning out material with the same formula, Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat’s return with LP3 and the same hurdy-gurdy waltz they’ve always had avoids such a pitfall, … Continue reading →

Everybody’s favorite NYC electrorock duo, Ratatat, is about to get less rock/guitar-oriented than ever for their third album Continue reading →

RATATAT’S music is a little unconventional. There is no singing, no verse-chorus-verse structures and the duo’s sound seems based around a clash between machine-made beats, baroque-inflected classical music and the joys of hair-metal guitar. It has been difficult to work … Continue reading →