Strikes the perfect balance between preparation and experimentation, injecting new life into the band's style of soft-hearted Midwestern indie rock with an ever so subtle Americana twist.
Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano.
Can a self-portrait be a collage? Can empathy be autobiographical? What's the point of living if we're not trying to understand all the horror and humor that surrounds everything?
Despite it's title, Ratboys' new album Singin' to an Empty Chair is not defined by what's missing. Rather, it's the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one, vocalist Julia Steiner finds herself estranged from.
The band's sixth studio album showcasing Ratboys at the peak of their powers - twangy, effervescent, as confident as they've ever been, and perhaps more emotionally interrogative than ever before.
Ratboys fill GN with near-misses, ghost pets, lonely rooms, and the strange comedy of staying alive. It is twangy indie rock with a diarist’s eye and a band’s instinct for lift.
Singin’ to an Empty Chair turns absence into conversation, letting Ratboys chase grief through twangy power-pop, country shimmer, and guitar-band lift-off. It’s generous, restless, and bright enough to make the hard parts hit harder.
Singin’ to an Empty Chair turns absence into conversation, letting Ratboys chase grief through twangy power-pop, country shimmer, and guitar-band lift-off. This color vinyl edition makes the band’s most emotionally open set feel even more like a keepsake.